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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}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|An Autobiographical Study]]'', 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:
<blockquote>"Every [[science]] is based on observations and experiences arrived at through the medium of our psychical apparatus. But since our [[science]] has as its subject that apparatus itself, the analogy ends here."<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|An Outline of Psycho-Analysis]]'', 1940a[1938]: [[SE]] XXIII, 159</ref></blockquote>
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