Sigmund Freud: snubbed by science, embraced by art

In his 1940 poem In Memory of Sigmund Freud, W.H. Auden wrote: “… if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd/to us he is no more a person/now but a whole climate of opinion/under whom we conduct our different lives”. That climate of opinion has done nothing but intensify in the decades since Auden wrote his ode. This year is the 160th anniversary of Freud’s birth and he remains a totemic cultural figure, although this is less the case in the field of psychology.Almost