"Many aspects of Freudian theory are indeed out of date, and they should be: Freud died in 1939, and he has been slow to undertake further revisions. His critics, however, are equally behind the times, attacking Freudian views of the 1920s as if they continue to have some currency in their original form."
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Drew Westen, in "The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud: Toward a psychodynamically informed psychological science" (1998, Psychological Bulletin 124, p. 333, )
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