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by haffla 3197 days ago
"And yet, although Freudian theories are no longer a part of mainstream science, Freud is still incredibly well-known..."

This is just plain wrong.. the author does not have any sources, no evidence.. just a bold claim, opinion.

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Freudian theories were never science (as we define it today) - as Popper pointed out after trying to reconcile scientific inquiry with Freud's and Adler's work - since they cannot be falsified, see e.g. https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/12451/why-did-kar...

They might be part of mainstream psychology (I have read conflicting accounts), but they are definitely not part of mainstream science; very little of psychology is.