In order to attain scientific standing, psychology has chosen classical physics as its methodological ideal. The primacy of method, appropriated without regard to its specific objectives, entailed the elevation of whatever is physically measurable to the status of "true" reality. Thus, psychology lost its "object," namely the experiencing subject whose perception and behavior are laden with meaning. Psychology's critique of psychoanalysis continues to judge the latter by the external criteria of scientism, overlooking its specific accomplishment—the formulation of a new method of inquiry which is appropriate to its object.