Freud gave us a method, even if some of his hypotheses are wrong. To call psychoanalysis unscientific is to not understand where the philosophy of science was back then. Neo Kantian philosophy was very popular in the late 19th century. Even logical positivism was Kantian in a way. Psychoanalysis was developed under the realization that you can't just study data without the use of human concepts not found in observation. The way we understand the world consciously and unconsciously is very important. The a priori. It's hard for the Anglo world to understand this and so declares anything which tries to go beyond data as unscientific. Freud's language persists because it is a useful way to organize the stream of data the senses present us. It just works.
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