Depth psychology is itself a religious faith (with multiple denominations) that competes with and, if adopted, displaces whatever religious faiths it claims to explain. This is why, in the vacuum left by Christian faith, Freudianism, Jungianism, Lacanianism sometimes flooded in to replace it, and was sometimes pumped in to flush the old faith out.

This is why, if I catch a whiff of depth psychology in a book supposedly on the subject of religion, the author immediately loses me.

This is tenfold true if I detect the odor of Marx, and a hundredfold if Marx is combined with depth psychology. How I can even slightly enjoy Zizek is a mystery.

Faith is our specific receptive capacity for givens. What we cannot receive remains ungiven, cloaked in oblivion, like light falling on a birth-blind eye, unperceived, inconceivable.

There is a name for (mis)taking what is ungiven: theft.

Alien faiths steal the givens of other faiths by misunderstanding them as their own belief.

Marxism, depth psychology, academic study, identity politics — these steal the given meanings of religious faiths and possesses them as information.