Wednesday, July 29, 2009

First they came . . .

First they came for my psychological archetypes,
But I wasn't part of the collective unconscious and I said nothing;
Then they came for my orgone accumulator,
But it was a clear day and there were no clouds for busting;
And when they came for my Rorschach blots,
There were no more crackpot psychological theories to bilk my patients with.

8 comments:

bill said...

Hey, for all we know Rorschach tests could have some kind of diagnostic or therapeutic value! It would be reckless to abandon such a well-established clinical tool based merely on a total lack of evidence of its validity and/or usefulness.

Anonymous said...

Does this mean you're a freudian?

Anonymous said...

To be fair, the orgone boxes were all destroyed by the United States Gov, along with all the theoretical work which birthed them. So someone thought something was going on there.

Also, re:anonymous, I do believe this is in reference to IOZ's continued (correct) assertion that psychology is a pseudo-science at best, and the work of the great psychologists (Provisional list: Freud, Jung, Levi-Strauss, Skinner) has much more in common with Continental philosophy than it does with any of Bacon's kids.

Anonymous said...

I know, I was joking. Freud, cokehead that he was, is the king of worthless psycho-bullshit, so his absence seemed conspicuous.

TenaciousK said...

Thank you, Ioz. I believe I'll follow your example and begin to make authoritative statements about things I know little about.

The joke is only funny when you lack understanding of why it's not.

IOZ said...

Oh dear, we've offended a Reichian.

Anonymous said...

Hey, do I knock your hobbies?

Anonymous said...

^Everybody loves a cook