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Believing that the wax statues fabricated by psychology are alive, man has gradually lost his knowledge of man.
Those who believe they’ve found arguments against Catholicism, and against religion in general, in so many stories of the lives of the saints, declaring that they were obviously sick and possessed of some dismal form of dementia, fail to see that nothing better justifies religion than the singular power it has to bring those miserable existences to fruition, instead of handing them over to the gloomy sterility of scientific treatment in some hygienic sanatorium.
The psychologist dwells in the slums of the soul, just as the sociologist dwells on the outskirts of society.
The modern psychologist renounces introspection. Not in the name of more accurate results, but so that his findings will be less disturbing.
Psychoanalytic interpretations seem to have been invented by a failed comedian.
Today’s psychologist doesn’t reject instinct so much as he rejects the label of “instinct.”
It is not the “primitive” who is frightened by the soul, it is the psychologist.
A psychologist is capable of any maneuver that ensures he will dodge the notion of the soul.
A sentiment is not sincere unless its manifestations deceive the professional psychologist.
Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of modern thought.
“Psychology” is, properly speaking, the study of bourgeois behavior.
The subconscious fascinates the modern mentality. Because there it can establish its favorite nonsense as irrefutable hypotheses.
The eagerness with which an explanation for everything is sought in the psychology of the unconscious is a reflection of modern anxiety before the presence of transcendence.
For the fool, only those behaviors conforming to the latest fashionable psychological theory are authentic.
The office of experimental psychology: one of the classic locations of “disguised unemployment.”
Note: Dávila was a Colombian political philosopher and in the Latin church. His aphorisms are presented here for the purposes of enjoyment, study, and historical record, but do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this writer. For more information on Dávila, see this introductory post. For information on how to live your life, go to church and read the Church Fathers/Saints.
Featured image: Antique book cover, from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. source
