Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [h--lo--e] at [polymath.tti.com] (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Freudian claptrap (was Re: ACLU ...)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 00:45:31 GMT

"Paul Hager" <[h--ge--p] at [cs.indiana.edu]> writes:
}Recently I was thinking about this
}Freudian claptrap about guns as phallic symbols.  It seems to me
}that guns are just as logically female fertility symbols or symbols
}of female empowerment.  (This, of course, is all predicated on buying
}into Freudian pseudo-science.)

It appears the following can not be repeated too often:

Freud stated that a fear of weapons was a sign of retarded sexual and
emotional maturity.

See the 10th Lecture of Freud's "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis"
(1952) and Freud and Oppenheim's "Dreams in Folklore" (1958).

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: [h--lo--e] at [polymath.tti.com])
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