“It was something of a task, for he is a dull and verbose writer, and the acrimony with which he claims to have originated such and such a theory shows a vanity and a jealousy of others working in the same field which somewhat ill become the man of science. I believe, however, that he was a kindly and benign old party. … I found nothing in my re-reading of Freud’s works that cast any light on the subject I had in mind.”–THE KITE by W. Somerset Maugham
You can see here how Maugham described Sigmund Freud.