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Analytical psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Jung's name for the science grown from psychoanalytic technique; he would have used Bleuler's "depth psychology" if it dealt only with the unconscious.

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Analytical psychology (n.) digs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up the fantasy-images rationalism walled out — not to go back to Nature with Rousseau, but to keep the level of reason reached and enrich it with knowledge of man's psychic foundations.

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Child psychology (n.) will ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠do for adult psychology what the study of the lower animals did for the higher.

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Child psychology (n.) apparently ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠consists in the psychology of the respective parents.

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Child psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠knowledge for the teacher, not to be unloaded on the child — it should help him understand the child's psychic life.

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Child psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the art of convincing your child that he'll CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 129 CHILDREN have more fun playing at the neighbor's.

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Comparative psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what Jung wanted taught beside comparative anatomy, since the psyche reaches back to prehistory: talk a hundred hours with a Fifth Avenue resident and old parchments read like thrillers.

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Empirical psychology (n.) only ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠establishes and explains psychic facts without prejudice; it has no right to judge their truth, validity, or moral and religious worth, though critics keep suspecting it of disguised theology.

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Empirical psychology (n.) starts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from a very limited field in which the psychologist is the only expert — his knowledge of himself — and he is surrounded by similar experts who all take their personal prejudices for general psychology.