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When applied to real, living people, Freud's theories are pretty useless and unrevealing. But, there's one thing I always like to bring up during discussions about Freud, and that's the fact that his theories are almost wholly based on characters from Greek and Shakespearean tragedies. I know I'm stating the obvious, but its no coincidence that it's called "The Oedipus Complex", based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.
My point is that Freud's theories can be very interesting to keep in mind while studying these tragedies. His "penis envy" theories fit very well when studying gender switching in Shakespeare. And its not very hard to have a production of Hamlet where Hamlet is in love with his mother. I could keep going, but you get the idea.
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