A lot of his basic ideas are so enmeshed into our public conception of how people work that we don't even realize they come from him, the main example being the

A lot of his basic ideas are so enmeshed into our public conception of how people work that we don't even realize they come from him, the main example being the basic ideas of "subconsciousness" and "repression". The interpretation of dreams stuff is definitely not as predictive as he claimed, but it's definitely got something to it; compared to "thinking dreams are random and meaningless" it's definitely a better theory to guess that they involve repressed stuff. Etc.