Morphy games do still help, and will always do (ideas don't get old, and I think it was Botwinnik who said that Morphy's treatment of open positions was so good that basically nothing new has been discovered in that field after him).
As a player who staled for a long time due to lack of aggression (fearing tactics, fearing theory, fearing quick defeats), I suggest to pick up very open opening lines and gambits for a while until you feel comfortable with open positions and attacking play. If you don't feel comfortable with the resulting positions and start losing games, it means everything is going well: you're not doing it to feel comfortable, you're doing it to expand you chess limits. The scotch is fine, but personally i would play 1.e4 e5 as black for a while.
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