Frankly, ten years ago it was stressed in our uni that freudian theory is strictly history, excpt for a several notions which separated and drifted into mainstream psychology (defensive mechanisms mainly).
Problem is, it's still heavy in cultural field, which only proves that people do not read anyting which is not in their narrow field. If the article was recent and the author still uses Oedipal complex (which does not exist) as an explanation, I'd sinply advice him to update his reading by at least... thirty years? Closer to forty, rather.