Psychology - bad poetry disguised as science

From There Is Only Awe by Rachel Aviv, a book review of Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

I came across this book sometime in the late seventies or early eighties and dipped into it occassionally. I was fascinated by its ideas but knew it was beyond my immediate boundaries of knowledge. This article is a nice retrospective of the author and the book, his only book. I like this line from Jaynes describing the field of psychology as

bad poetry disguised as science