Reflections on Philip Rieff 's
The Triumph of the Therapeutic by JOHN WREN-LEWIS
Philip Rieff , Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. is editor of the Collected Works of Siegmund Freud and a professed Freudian. He believes that modern culture is committed to the therapeutic effort, to well-being for its own sake, after the failure of demand-systems like Communism and Christianity. John Wren-Lewis thinks Rieff goes some way beyond Freud-but still not far enough.