Jonah, I defended Freud from a conservative perspective in NR back in, I think, 1999, though I knew, and know, it is hopeless. Believers dislike him, because, in fairness, he disliked them. Libertarians imagine (wrongly) that he chips away at their autonomy. And the science heads are confidently working on that pill that will make us live to 150 and think like Einstein (maybe they’ll find it in embryos!).

The only other NR-type to put in a good word for him was Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, though I suspect that was partly Austrian patriotism.

W.H. Auden’s poem on Freud is not bad at all.