Psychology is not a science

This is a quote from the introduction to a well cited psychology paper.

“The need, in borderline cases, of an increased focus on formation of the psychic apparatus rather than on the issues of desire, points to the very process of formation of thought. The thought inquires itself through someone who asks the question and enables its own constitution. Unlike the desire that, in principle, cannot be accomplished, the formation of mental apparatus through the presence of the other must be achieved. One can say that questioning and specially answering becomes the subject, as it provides him with contours and territoriality. This is something that is engendered in a constant attempt to completion: to think, as to desire, is constantly becoming.”

It’s like some weird sort of pseudo symbolic/linguistic logic.

The controversial bit was where the author wrote ‘one could say..’. Or not, as his academic nemesis would say.

I feel that these muppets have over-fitted their models out past the edge of the known universe without even noticing. Madness!

Maybe only the mad get interested in it in the first place.