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Book SynopsisNow a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance .. . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences.Alastair MacIntyre, Manchester GuardianThis remarkably subtle and substantial book, with its nicely ordered sequences of skilled dissections and refined appraisals, is one of those rare products of profound analytic thought. . . . The author weighs each major article of the psychoanalytic canon in the scales of his sensitive understanding, then gives a superbly balanced judgement.Henry A. Murray, American Sociological ReviewRieff's tremendous scholarship and rich reflections fill his pages with memorable treasures.Robert W. White, Scientific AmericanPhilip Rieff's book is a brilliant and beautifully reasoned example of what Freud's influence has really been: an increasing intellectual vigilance about human nature. . . . What the analyst does for the patientpr
