Abstract

Psychology as Pseudo-Science

This article focuses on two books "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," by Sigmund Freud and "Analytical Psychology," by C.G. Jung. Freud presents three techniques, each of which is analyzable into two to five sub-techniques; and as the work of analysis proceeds, each of these comes in for a fair share of peculiar adaptive twists in statement and meaning. The most important section of Jung's book is the chapter devoted to method. Perhaps the most important section of Jung's book is the long chapter devoted to method. Three lectures delivered at Clark University in 1909 make up the content of the chapter, the first attempting to state the elements of the method as a whole, the second applying the method to familiar association groups, and the third describing how the knowledge of the mysteries of sex is demanded by and should be imparted to a baby girl of four years.