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Two-thirds of a century ago, in a polemic against religion and theoretical anarchism, Freud (1933, p. 158) rhetorically queried: “Does psychoanalysis lead to a certain Weltanschauung?” Answering this question in the negative, he counterpoised empirical science against illusion and emotion. Science, in Freud's way of thinking, was about capturing the truth or, at least, about approximating closely towards the truth, while illusion was of and about the magical fulfillment of the wishes of childhood. However, while in the laboratory sciences it may be reasonable to assume that researches are independent of such loosely defined constructs as value and meaning, and of notions of good and evil or right and wrong, in the behavioral sciences such theoretical neatness may be a luxury at best. It may be argued, for instance, that psychoanalytically-based theories of development, as well