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→Is Psychoanalysis a Science?
[[Freud]] was quite explicit in affirming the [[science|scientific status]] of [[psychoanalysis]]:
<blockquote>"While it was originally the name of a particular therapeutic method [...] it has now also become the name of a [[science]] - the [[science]] of unconscious mental processes."<ref>{{F}} 1925a: [[FreudSE]], 1925a: SE XX, 70</ref>. </blockquote>
However, he also insisted on the unique character of [[psychoanalysis]] that sets it apart from the other [[science]]s:
