#philip rieff

[milksockets]

The heaviest crosses are internal and men make them so that, thus skeletally supported, they can bear the burden of their flesh. Under the sign of this inner cross, a certain inner distance is achieved from the infantile desire to be and have everything.

Philip Rieff, quoted in The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker

[tonreihe]

A year into her marriage to Philip Rieff, Susan Sontag realizes what she has gotten herself into. (Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon)

[herbataiobiektyw]

Heroin chic i smutna historia Davida Sorrenti

Heroin chic podbił świat mody w połowie lat dziewięćdziesiątych. Francesca Sorrenti już nie mogła się doczekać, by wprowadzić go do świata wielkiej mody, wraz z domniemanym twórcą Davidem. Sprawić by nazwisko Sorrenti naprawdę dominowało w tej branży. Dziś kolejna historia o tym jak wygląda kariera, mobilność klasowa, jak nieprawdziwie przedstawiano nam świat fotografii. (more…)

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[yacheika213]

The impossibility of living without repression

In order to have a truly human existence there must be limits; and what we call culture or the superego sets such limits. Culture is a compromise with life that makes human life possible.

If there is tragic limitation in life there is also possibility. What we call maturity is the ability to see the two in some kind of balance into which we can fit creatively.

Character is the restrictive shaping of possibility

From: “The Denial of Death” by E. Becker (1973)

[bobonbooks]

Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl R. Trueman. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2020. Summary: Traces the intellectual history of what Charles Taylor calls expressive individualism and Philip Rieff calls the psychological man that the author argues explains the modern understanding of self contributing to a revolution in human sexuality. Carl R. Trueman offers in this work something of an…

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Was Sontag the real author of husband's 'Freud: The Mind of the Moralist'?

Was Sontag the real author of husband’s ‘Freud: The Mind of the Moralist’?

‘Forgive me, please,’ begged her ex-husband … Susan Sontag, in 1975. Photograph: Peter Hujar Archive/courtesy Pace MacGill gallery

13 May 2019 | Alison Flood | The Guardian

A new biography of Susan Sontag is set to claim that the American writer was the true author of her first husband Philip Rieff’s seminal work Freud: The Mind of the Moralist.

Out in September, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin…

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[giosoti]

L'ortodossia non è altro che un'eresia che ha avuto successo

Philip Rieff

[bluewatsons]

Both Socrates and Christ taught economic man to be at least slightly ashamed of himself when he failed to sacrifice the lower capacity to the higher. Freud is America’s great teacher, despite his ardent wish to avoid that fate. For it was precisely the official and parental shams of high ideals that Freud questioned. In their stead, Freud taught lessons which Americans, prepared by their own national experience, learn easily: survive, resign yourself to living within your moral means, suffer no gratuitous failures in a futile search for ethical heights that no longer exist—if they ever did.

Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)