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Philip Rieff  

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  • An American social theorist and analyst of culture, Philip Rieff (b. 1922) is best known for two acclaimed books on Freud and his influence on twentieth-century culture, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959) and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (1966), and as the editor of the 10-volume edition, The Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud (1963). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Rieff, Philip]

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