Psychology now enjoys the prestige astrology once commanded in royal courts.
Intellectuals adopted Freudian language quickly, warping even such disciplines as literary criticism. But faith in psychology has long since penetrated popular culture too. You still see its imprint in old Hollywood movies, where the psychoanalyst is presented as a sort of wizard peering into the souls of his subjects. Not that there isn't some truth in all this. Freud did map out large areas of the psyche that had been previously unexplored.