Freud's ideas about the unconscious, defense mechanisms, and the formative power of early experience have proven durable even where his specific theories (unconscious sexuality, stages of psychosexual development) have been largely abandoned. His enduring insight—that we are not transparent to ourselves and that our past shapes us in ways we cannot directly observe—remains foundational to modern psychology.
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