Comment by ajkjk

The appeal of Freud is that there's clearly something true about it. It's not all true, not even close, and as a predictive model it is extremely weak; the ways it's not true is really important and everyone figured out that it's there so they moved on to other models. But it's got (I believe) true parts, even though you can't really call them "science", and those parts appeal to people like me who are looking for something... more than therapy, I guess.