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Modern psychotherapy - Freud's sexualism but also Jung's spiritualism, existentialist (Frankl) phenomenological (Binswanger) humanist (Rogers) schools - are all flawed, despite the external differences, they all have a wrong anthropology : being modern, for them man is ego.
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This blurry vision of man as "psyche" - without a higher/intellectual plane - is basically to see man as an ego, so even Jung, the most "spiritual" of them, reduces religious symbolic to collective unconscious/archetypes, degrading its metaphysics, Jordan Peterson follows -
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this lense too. (see Titus Burckhardt's critique).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12m2T3boEUAQIYb7vvLSt1nPB9hOzdceT/view?usp=drivesdk

"People’s growing love of psychology is a terrible thing. Psychology helps those in the West, but it is dreadful when the Orthodox learn psychology and substitute it for the neptic tradition of -
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of the Church. We must undermine Orthodox Christians’ love of psychology, because psychological methodology is outside the Orthodox tradition &, at the same time, it is characterized by the Western mentality. (p.269)

St. Sofronij's book, “I Know a Man in Christ, pg, 269".
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