/lit/ - Literature

I'll tell you why psychology is bullshit.

Psychology's approach is flawed from the very beginning: in trying to categorize the mind, it is completely blind to the soul. It tries to typify the human mind into a series of neat categories, when in reality the mind, as a product of the soul, is in constant motion. The existence of the mind assumes the pre-existence of the soul. To attempt to arrange the mind into mechanical categories is in itself soulless. The universe is forever changing. In the words of Goethe, "nature knows no gaps". The soul is ever-becoming, but psychology sees itself as a science that deals only with the become.

To truly understand a person one must be the judge of their soul, as a trainer might be a judge of an athlete. One must use feeling and intuition to reach out and immerse themselves in the other person's soul, not analyze and categorize their mind like psychology tries to do.

The various "mental illnesses" of psychology are falsehoods, inane categories. Depression, personality disorders, personality types, these are all attempts by psychology to categorize the mind and tell a person "this is who you are". It may need not be said the detrimental affect this might have on someone's well-being. Instead of being told how they can make themselves better, they are told that they belong to a psychological category and that they are basically fucked. Cue the pills, and further spiraling into despair.

The judge of the soul must feel themself as the other person. He must judge their values, needs, desires, and even accomplishments in life. All these are microcosmic entities that make up a person's soul, and in seeing the history of a person's life in its entirety, the judge can intuitively see where a person has come from, where that person is going, and how best to help that person on their spiritual path through life. Not everyone will be born with the ability to do this. It is deliberately unscientific and it cannot be a learned profession. But the whole point of psychology is to be a "profession". The teaching and learning of psychology takes precedence over what psychology claims to want to do. It is pure lecture philosophy, inorganic and mechanical, not lived, or felt.

Why is psychology such a useless subject?