Fickle Fecal Fashion

To be fair, there's nothing inherently sillier or more fraudulent in Freud than in any of the other so-called "depth-psychologists."  Adler's crippled snobbism, Jung's hysterical esotericism, Neumann's fatuous autogynephilia--all certainly have their several places in history's oblivious ashcan.  To what then shall we attribute Freud's former pre-eminence and late, uneasy universal discredit?  I think we can put it down to Freud's incomparably more malignant nastiness--which the Vulgar Many always confound with Profundity--and, more particularly, to his invention of the word and concept of "fecal play."  

 Fashions come and go, but Freud has been popular, and will continue to be popular, just as James Joyce and the comte de Sade will always be popular, among those who continue to relish any occasion to dwell on the end product of digestion.