On Psychological Language

Erich Neumann has good things to say, but sometimes he likes to speak in ''medicalese'', as I call it, which was probably hip at the time. It is like going to the Doctor who starts throwing Latin terms at you, and then you go 'why didn't you just say I have a broken leg?

Here is an example:

‘‘This "egoization" of a closed-off and sclerotic consciousness i…