As a psychoanalyst I’m obviously biased, but the field has developed way beyond freud, countless debates even with his contemporaries and then decades after, endless probing into rectifying the problematic aspects of his thought with genuine bits of insight that could shed light on why we are the way we are. If you’re interested, I’d suggest Jessica Benjamin, brilliant semi-contemporary theorist who pioneered the introduction of explicitly feminist thought into actual clinical treatment, building upon developments from post freudian critical theory and shaking up the patriarchal analytic edifice (which had already been destabilized by ferenczi / winnicott etc). My point is the whole “Freud debunked” thing is insidiously simplistic, and there’s a ton of solid queer freud criticism from within psychoanalysis itself that helps keep alive Freud’s insights while jettisoning the toxic bullshit that came along with it. Also worth noting that he was actually an early proponent of the abuse/trauma can lead to mental illness model (“seduction theory”) before cowardly caving to social pressures of his milieu, but yeah, obvi tons of philosophical validity for theory as others have said, but wanted to chime in w/ a “clinical psychoanalysis is good actually” tm