A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes …

Susan Sontag
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. ✨ Illness As Metaphor by Susan Sontag, ch. 7 (pp. 55-56), 1978.
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. ✨ Illness As Metaphor by Susan Sontag, ch. 7 (pp. 55-56), 1978.

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