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Oedipus Complex (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world
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The history of psychology is wild.

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[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

To be more specific, Jung's psychology has been characterized as "unscientific" on the following grounds:

  • that some Jungian concepts, such as archetypes and synchronicity, cannot be proven by the scientific method
  • that Jung subscribed to a nineteenth-century notion of evolution that has since been discredited
  • that Jung's valuation of the mental functions of feeling and intuition on the same level as thinking weakens the attitude of rational objectivity that is essential in scientific research
  • that Jung's interest in occult traditions, including the pre-scientific European past (third-century Gnosticism and medieval alchemy) and contemporary Asian cultures (Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism) amounts to a glorification of mysticism and irrationality
  • that Jung's clinical specialization in the treatment of schizophrenia and his own brush with psychosis made him an untrustworthy guide to "ordinary" reality

https://www.europeanmedical.info/cognitive-therapy/the-unscientific-nature-of-jungs-psychology.html

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the explanation.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See, the only issue with that explanation is that it didn't really introduce to the reader any of Jung's contributions or beliefs. But yeah, fuck spiritualists. This Jung guy would have been right at home in a modern Midwifery Association.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

There’s lots more on the internet where that came from.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is only 10% of the article dipshit. Some of these points are only theorized to be the case.

Also, I find it kind of funny. Scientific method is just a model with its own flaws and is bound to faliure in certain fields as all models do.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You aren’t much of a thinker, are ya?

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

🤷‍♀️

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

how do you feel about who has the burden of proof? the person claiming the thing or someone saying there is no evidence to suggest that the claim is correct?