Ok don’t know whether Freud was a charlatan or simply one of many explorers of his time, who believed in his theories. (Consider Lysenko and others.)

But his nephew EDWARD BURNAYS in the USA is the reason Freud came to USA and we even know about Freud. And Burnays was far more successful using methods of mass psychology — very meta, he renamed Propaganda to PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Burnays got women to smoke, and helped promote the public stock market, which now is used for IPO of many startups. Google “Century of the Self” for a great documentary.