Freud’s theory of metaphor: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, nineteenth-century science and figurative language

At the beginning of the final lecture in Freud\u27s 1933 publication, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud declared summarily and triumphantly that psychoanalysis was a science. \u27As a specialist science, a branch of psychology ... it is quite unfit to construct a Weltanschauung of its own: it must accept the scientific one.\u271 This was a view he continued to stress as his career drew to a close. In 1940, seven years after the lecture on the Weltanschauung, he noted that psychology was ca natural science like any other\u27, asking defiantly: (What else can it be?\u272https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1012/thumbnail.jp