As far as I know, Freudian psychoanalysis has been dead academically as long as I've been alive. Complaining about it is pretty close to complaining about how physics is stuffed with all these people who believe in the lumineferous aether. [1]

Were a lot of Freud's initial ideas discredited? Definitely. But the same is true of Isaac Newton, who was an alchemist and theologian. Consider his recipe for curing plague with toad amulets. [2]

The beginnings of any sort of knowledge are messy. But progress is possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/02/isaac-newton-p...