You should hear what he has to say about you.
Seriously though, how do you make history by starting with nothing and believing mostly nonsense? Oh yeah, genius.
Might it be a little more accurate to say that his insights were still a work in progress during his lifetime? His writing never lacked “sense”. He changed the sense of being human.
I was utterly fascinated by his book Moses and Monotheism, although I take his conclusions with a grain of salt.
Biblical scholar Elias Auerbach, remarking on Freud’s assertion that the historical Moses must have been Egyptian, not Jewish, because he bore an Egyptian name*, said “Then what are we to make of someone with the non-Jewish name “Sigmund Freud”?”
*-mose signifies “Child of” in Egyptian naming, and is always suffixed to the name of a god. the significance is muddied in our naming of the Pharaohs, since we get them by way of the Greeks, but “Thoth-mose” becomes “Thothmes” in our histories, “Ra-mose” becomes “Rameses”, and so on. The implication is that Moses completely dropped the Theo- part of his Theophoros name, thereby dropping his commitment to polytheism as well.
What if it had been a giant cigar?