A Second Fall

The Enlightenment came about as a result of the increasing ascendancy of the scientific outlook and scientific method. However could it be that the application of scientific method distanced and alienated us from nature and that this represents a kind of second Fall? Psychology took this alienation further by attempting to alienate us from ourselves by studying our own nature as a strange and inexplicable phenomenon remote from who we are in personal terms; indeed, by not even acknowledging personal terms. In that sense it, ironically, depersonalised the person it proposed to study, shouldering him or her aside (and, of course, persons are better 'studied' by novelists). New raids on the Tree of Knowledge in the name of knowledge?