The fact that you drag around such envy from childhood all your life without knowing about it and then justify the adult negative reactions of women towards men with such a penis envy leads to completely fruitless, hostile, emotionally charged debates, where in the end you have learned nothing really interesting
Freud has been so discredited. What saddens me is all the women who were "treated" over the years by psychologists who believed this envy was the root of their anxiety.
I want to give credit to him for his "finding" of the subconscious - THIS is actually the more interesting thing. Which of course, was long found by others but he deserves the credit for the Western modern world.
Yes, many atrocities were done on people in the name of whatever was the state of the arts. I remember this poor Kennedy daughter which had to endure the brain seizure and was afterwards crippled. Was not because of hysteria but ...you know, in the end those cases bare many similarities.
Of course he changed the way we look at ourselves, and that was revolutionary. But revisions were definitely in order :)