You have to consider how things were before Freud before dismissing him. Before Freud there was no idea that the mind subconsciously processed information. Al

You have to consider how things were before Freud before dismissing him. Before Freud there was no idea that the mind subconsciously processed information. Although his ideas of how psychology works were very "infantile", they were the first attempt to investigate the subconscious, thus revolutionary.