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The problem of anthropomorphism in psychoanalysis is discussed by an imaginary team of three: A practising psychoanalyst, an academic cognitive psychologist, and a philosopher of science.
The philosopher claims that in science the usage of anthropomorphic concepts are permitted only in descriptive models, but not in the explanatory theories. And if a science uses them also for the sake of explanation—it is only if that science can prove that it has also an alternative more scientific theory to explain the same phenomena and events.