"Only cultureless societies can exist without presiding presences. No presence can preside when all are subject to aba…"

"In the slow accretion of self-images that is the mortar between periods in the history of our civilization, a third c…"

"Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living."

"Surely the romantic and now permanent revolution against the ancient regime of reason is against a regime largely inv…"

"Depth psychology has demolished the optimistic faith of democrats in the rationality of a free citizenry, by discover…"

"Freud was overimpressed, it now appears, with the monolithic repressiveness of culture, and unable to perceive that o…"

"The higher dividends are essentially symbolic in nature. They are, in Freudian terms, the cultural equivalents of div…"

"The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibili…"

"[To Freud], [t]he ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to pr…"

"Since no firm social standards for treatment have yet been erected, some grave ambiguities persist regarding the ques…"