THAT HE WOULD be ridiculed and persecuted seemed to Wilhelm Reich but one of the high prices he would have to pay for the range and depth of his advance beyond the analytic attitude as it had...
About the Author
Philip Rieff, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He is the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, and has completed a new book entitled Culture and Commitment: Uses of Faith after Freud (to be published by Harper & Row), from which the present essay has been adapted.