I remember back in the day when my college professor mocks Sigmund Freud for being outdated and renders his claims as myths while the rest of us gents and even them gals in the class goes, "You don't know shit, professor."
Freuds interpretations of psychology are completely euro-centric.
Euro-centric in a sense that everything is explained by hidden sexual desires and taboos in the subconscience.
However, this taboo and the oppressed desired are coming from the catholic church morals from the late antiquity and early middle ages, which don't exist in that form in other parts of the world. And which are not an inherent part of human behavior.
The catholic church stipulates that sex is only allowed for reproduction purposes among married heterosexual couples, and even then you aren't allowed to enjoy it. Feeling lust is always a sin.
This also explains our "modern" view on sex, for example the idea that mere flirting with a smile and a raised eyebrow could be perceived as "sexual harassment". Or that children (under 18) would be automatically traumatized from merely seeing adults having sex.
Which is all not only against the contemporary state of science, but against all fundamentals of biology.
Fact is that sex is the most normal and essential thing in life, right next to eating or breathing air.
So that is why Freud explains all mental problems with some form of sexual frame. If sex is that fundamental, but everything sexual is forbidden, it just has to be the cause for all problems in the world.
But these morals are largely unknown in other cultures.
For example, Islam - as an abrahamic religion it is likewise strict about adultery and homosexuality, but it explicitly endorses the enjoyment of sex. So there is no taboo about sexual desires per se, like simply enjoying sex in its own right. That is why Islam allows to marry multiple wives, to get divorced at will, to have unrestricted sex with non-muslim slaves, and doesn't require a marriage partner to be of reproductive age yet. It is more adapted to normal human biology and our basic needs.
Not to mention more distant cultures - read up on historical Taoism for example. They actually recommended having sex for your mental and spiritual health, IIRC with girls not older than 14 and who aren't your wives.
And then you can go further, like the ancient egyptians, persians, some greek cultures all demanded for rulers to marry their siblings just for the purity of the bloodline.
Obviously these cultures could survive for thousands of years with their own moral codex being so different from ours.
In contrast, many of Freud's interpretations are so absurd that they are outright laughable. Like the "Oedipus Complex", based on a single story from greek mythology.
You love your mother? That is normal, because you probably spent most of your childhood in her care.
You have issues with your father? That is also normal, because he mostly likely neglected you during childhood in favor of his career; to get food on the table and pay for your upbringing. And he likely passes that behavior on to you.
Also the alpha male behavior doesn't really allow two dominant males to live under the same roof, so that's also completely normal if you constantly argued about everything while you still lived in their house.
It doesn't mean that you want to have sex with your mother and murder your father. Freud had a pretty vivid imagination.
