Modern man cannot imagine any possibility of knowing which lies beyond the reach of an empirical science. The body is the boundary of the Real. Knowing is thus a matter of external experience. Modern man's world is highly verifiable but highly pedestrian. It is proving to be unfulfilling, barren and sterile.
Wonder finds no place in the modern world.
The psychology which best expresses modern connection with, and alienation from, the premodern experience is that of Sigmund Freud who maintains the three dimensional experience of human-being even as he redefines it. Freud affirms the body through which we experience Time. The id is the force of physical instinct active within us urging us to satisfy the needs of hunger, protection, and sexual expression. Spirit is thus subsumed within the dimension of Time. Personlity, psyche, now ceases to exist in a dimension beyond Time.