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Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1946, Vol. XV, No. 3, p. 279.
The contradiction in the scientific historical evaluation of Freud's work is resolved by recognizing that he accomplished two things at the same time; by opposing pseudo-materialism and by strongly emphasizing the existence of a mental sphere and the inadequacy of the physical sciences in dealing with psychopathology and the psychological aspects of life, he won this terrain for science.