pop psych

How a concept created and coined by Carl Jung became the latest pop psych buzzword for self-discovery on social media.

How a concept created and coined by Carl Jung became the latest pop psych buzzword for self-discovery on social media.

“Good scientists treat the truth as provisional. They know that science is dynamic and the scientific method is going to lead them to new truths or a refinement of truth, but readers want the one true thing, and in pop psych that means the one true thing that will change their lives.”

I feel as if we go through this every few years: a condition, vaguely defined, emerges as the focus of a million quizzes and pop psych columns that encourage us to diagnose those who displease us.

Something about Close seems to invite this sort of pop-­psych exegesis.