Montaigne and Freud

I have been slowly reading my way through Montaigne's essays. I read him about a dozen years ago, but I did not have the fine appreciation of him I have now.

He is an independent thinker who examines things with an open mind. He has an axe to grind, but it is his own axe.

I like reading Freud because he is a master prose stylist like Montaigne. He is an independent thinker too with his own axe to grind. However, Freud's mind is not nearly as open as Montaigne's

You may disagree with both of them, but at least you have a target to shoot at. Oh, for the good old days.