Short Answer-Yes, Freud was rejected several times by the Academy, but the premise of your question is wrong. read more
Long Answer- According to the data released by the Nobel Prize Commitee(The nominations are only released after 50 years), Sigmund Freud was nominated 33 times in 12 years for the prize, but psychoanalysis had made many enemies in the then conservative Europe. read more
He was nominated for 12 years, but the nominations ceased forever when the Nobel committee engaged an expert who said that Freud’s work was of no proven scientific worth. 6. He was a bad scientist. read more