Freud stumbled upon a few accurate things while making sh*t up. But that had nothing to do with him.

Given what he claims about sexuality, I wouldn't cite him on infant sexuality. And his notion of phases? Puh-lease. His followers did much damage to girls' sexuality be believing that the clitoral phase would naturally give way to a vaginal phase.

And his notions of the "mechanism" of repression gave us the retrieved memory concepts that have fueled the witchunt. This isn't a case of good concepts being put to bad use. But of bad unfalsifiable claims about HIS pet theories being used to promote ANYONE'S pet theories. Freudians convinced the public that they were practicing a science, and by introducing their magical memory recovery and magical motive interpretation they laid the ground for accepting this sort of BS as "science."

Anyone with open eyes knew that infants are sexual. And many before and afterwards were able to state so without claiming that their sexuality is a regrettable necessity on a way towards a more authentic adult sexuality.

Heck, Freud even "saw" a latency phase. Hence all those sexy tweens don't really have a sexuality at all. It lies dormant waiting for the real sexuality of adulthood.

In the modern convo, baby doc Benjamin Spock had more to contribute by keeping his eyes open and saying, "Don't worry, its perfectly normal." And all this without theorizing about invisible mechanisms in the brain or unconscious motives.

Dante