To be more specific, Jung's psychology has been characterized as "unscientific" on the following grounds: Psychology and sociology have been accepted as legitimate fields of scholarly inquiry only recently back then, Jung's view of symbolism appeared to undermine the "scientific" status of psychology. My book was declared to be rubbish I was a mystic, and that settled the matter." The insecure position of the social sciences in the academic pecking order of the early twentieth century might be one reason why other psychiatrists would have felt threatened by some of Jung's ideas. all my friends and acquaintances dropped away. Jung's view of the functions of symbolism in dreams led to his isolation from the mainstream psychiatric community. This accusation surfaced as early as Jung's break with Freud in 1913. One of the earliest criticisms of Jung's work is that it is anti-scientific in its intentions as well as its content.
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