The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications

by Renos K. Papadopoulos

Within the space of two paragraphs he advocates epistemological openness, accepting his theories as working hypotheses and then, he moves to profess his definitive ‘knowledge’ of phenomena which in a tautological fashion confirm his theories. It is this kind of epistemology that was termed ‘Gnostic epistemology’ (Papadopoulos 1997);