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What Did Freud Say About Aging? A Closer Look at His Controversial Views

In 1905, approaching his 50th birthday, Sigmund Freud made a now-famous assertion that people over 50 lacked the “elasticity of mental processes” for psychoanalysis. This single statement, however, belies a much more complex and even contradictory perspective on what did Freud say about aging throughout his life's work.