irrationalisms

Noun

irrationalism (countable and uncountable, plural irrationalisms)

1. A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
   • Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense iwth as he imagines he has no philosophy or...1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351