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What kind of knowledge do the leading advocates of psychoanalysis claim to offer? Throughout his career, Freud's answer was unequivocal: Psychology is one of the natural sciences (1925b, p. 57). And he added: “I have always felt it a gross injustice that people have refused to treat psycho-analysis like any other science” (p. 58). During the year before his death, no less than in 1895, Freud emphatically claimed the status of a natural science for his theory. Thus, as late as 1938, he told us in his “Outline” that once we grant the existence of unconscious