Originally Posted by $5 submissions

It's only role in modern psychiatry and psychology is as a history lesson in the evolution of those disciplines. It was pure theory based on slanted observations of a tiny unrepresentative sample. Very little statistical corroboration or experimentation to prove its premises. That's why it fell so fast. It's cultural legacy can still be felt even now--phrases like "anal retentive" "you're projecting again" or "an Oedipus complex" still surface from time to time. But as a "science" it has gone tits up a long time ago. Didn't even need French post-structuralists like Foucault ("Madness and Civilization" / "Discipline and Punish") to knock the Freudian house of cards down--it was already collapsing of its own weight.