Freud externalized, like all males do. He may have briefly stumbled upon the truth but his ego defenses made him pretzel it into a convoluted cope. His initial work was on CSA and pedophilia, which likely made him unable to separate his observations from his core male self somewhere down the road, this prompting the testerical "NO ACTUALLY ITS THE CHILDREN WHO PROVOKE THEM REEEEEE" pivot he became famous for. Fundamentally, a man cannot face who he is - it hurts too much and "kills" his false self. This is something all the women who believe in changing men need to understand.

A male is incapable of accountability because guilt and self awareness interfere with his most basic evolutionary function - take stupid risks until he either reproduces or dies. That alone requires self deception and grandiose delusions.

You will frequently see shit like serial killers trooning out, pedos age regressing, etc. That is typical male convoluted guilt-dodging - to ward off the realization that he's a piece of shit, he will scrap his prior self entirely and try to become someone else, typically a member of the group he wronged, which is supposed to enhance his delusion of innocence. He, of course, won't stop the behavior he is trying to dodge the guilt of, because he is unable to. He'll just use the mangled split identity to "okay" it to himself while mitigating guilt and shame. This is the kind of deranged mess that happens inside men's minds.