Frases de Philip Rieff

Philip Rieff fue un sociólogo y crítico cultural americano, que enseñó sociología en la Universidad de Pensilvania desde 1961 hasta 1992. Fue autor de varios libros sobre Sigmund Freud y su legado, incluyendo Freud: The Mind of the Moralist y The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud . Estuvo casado durante ocho años en la década de 1950 con Susan Sontag, con la que escribió su primera obra. De este matrimonio nació su hijo, David Rieff, un escritor.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 15. diciembre 1922 – 1. julio 2006
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Philip Rieff: Frases en inglés

“Once launched into some activity, conceiving of himself as an instrument of God’s will, the ascetic did not stop to ask about the meaning of it all. On the contrary, the more furious his activity, the more the problem of what his activity meant receded from his mind. … To meet the demands of the day was as near as one could come to doing the pious thing, in this—God’s—world. To trouble about meaning was really an impiety and, of course, frivolous, because futile. For the question of meaning, therefore, neither the ascetic nor the therapeutic type feels responsible, if his spiritual discipline has been successful. The recently fashionable religious talk of “ultimate concern” makes no sense either in the ascetic or in the therapeutic mode. To try to relate “ultimate concern” to everyday behavior would be exhausting and nerve-shattering work; indeed, it could effectively inhibit less grandiose kinds of work. Neither the ascetic nor the therapeutic bothers his head about “ultimate concern.” Such a concern is for mystics who cannot otherwise enjoy their leisure. In the workaday world, there are no ultimate concerns, only present ones. Therapy is the respite of every day, during which the importance of the present is learned, and the existence of what in the ascetic tradition came to be called the “ultimate” or “divine” is unlearned.”

The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”

Fuente: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

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