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Many people I know online like to participate in NaNoWriMo. While I never considered the possibility of writing a novel in a month, I can safely state that I've written a book-worth of pages for my reports this semester in less than 2 weeks. The good thing is that I was actually able to pull it off; the bad is that having to write so many uninspired events (such as details on how upper-level management hires new employees and go on to describe the rather boring details of it).
Maybe it's just a childish fantasy, but Psychology (and more specifically, working with Psychology) just shouldn't be this boring! All those statistics seem useless even if they help in some areas. But the focus I want for myself was to work with imagination and fantasy, not with something that lacks (and more often than not dislikes) imagination. The human soul is more than the study of its objectively observed phenomena, but the academic discourse and the need to explain things that are often reduced by the explanation itself diminishes the possibility of actual growth. If explaining the way the psyche worked could answer all our questions, then reading books on it would suffice. It obviously doesn't, so we have to imagine it to be able to penetrate deeper into it in order to have an actual understanding of it.
Writing reports on the daily life of an Internship doesn't leave much room for that, neither does trying to find a way to fit a person into a given theoretical stance. I doubt many would agree with me on that, especially when the debates come to whether Psychology is a science or not -- if it is, then there needs to be a way to verify its findings, if it isn't, then it becomes unreliable, such is the current discourse today. I'd rather echo Jung and state that Psychology is an art. And art is nothing without imagination.
Maybe it's just a childish fantasy, but Psychology (and more specifically, working with Psychology) just shouldn't be this boring! All those statistics seem useless even if they help in some areas. But the focus I want for myself was to work with imagination and fantasy, not with something that lacks (and more often than not dislikes) imagination. The human soul is more than the study of its objectively observed phenomena, but the academic discourse and the need to explain things that are often reduced by the explanation itself diminishes the possibility of actual growth. If explaining the way the psyche worked could answer all our questions, then reading books on it would suffice. It obviously doesn't, so we have to imagine it to be able to penetrate deeper into it in order to have an actual understanding of it.
Writing reports on the daily life of an Internship doesn't leave much room for that, neither does trying to find a way to fit a person into a given theoretical stance. I doubt many would agree with me on that, especially when the debates come to whether Psychology is a science or not -- if it is, then there needs to be a way to verify its findings, if it isn't, then it becomes unreliable, such is the current discourse today. I'd rather echo Jung and state that Psychology is an art. And art is nothing without imagination.