What is the Catholic view of Sigmund Freud and psychology?

Freud was a product of his generation. Around 1890 William James wrote what many call the first book on psychology; before that, psychology was only implicit, in writers like Immanuel Kant and in the medieval saints (John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart), who dug deep into their own minds spiritually to find out how deep sin really lurks in them, peeling off the layers of the onion to reach the core of who they are. They were the first psychoanalysts. Psychology tries to deal with the human problem, but the human problem is a sin problem, and no psychologist, Freud or otherwise, will admit that unless he is a Christian; they call our tendency toward evil a natural consequence of evolution rather than concupiscence, the punishment we inherited from Adam. The Freudian view says everything is based on sex, which fits Freud coming out of the repressed Victorian era. He divided man into the id (the deep recesses where we hide our worst thoughts, which the analyst must bring out), the ego (the part that wants to be a productive citizen and subdue the id), and the super-ego (the hovering influence of your parents and their parents). Then came behaviorism: B.F. Skinner based everything on reward and punishment. Then the humanist existential school (Carl Rogers) made empathy the goal, though it is hard to be altruistic while charging $300 an hour. An experiment took 100 neurotic people and gave 25 each to the Freudians, the behaviorists, the humanists, and 25 to no treatment at all; about a year later every group, including the ones with no psychology, had the same 70% success rate. That told me something was wrong: the human mind, driven by a strong survival instinct, usually figures out what it must do to rejoin society. The factor all the psychologies leave out is sin. Deal with people as inheritors of original sin with a tendency toward concupiscence, and you will go a long way past 70%. Even when the problem is not itself a sin, how a person deals with it can be a sin, which is why a pastor's first question, what is the sin problem here, works. So no, the church does not endorse Sigmund Freud.