Kontroversiellt ämne? Antagligen inte. Jag lämnar er med följande parafraserade citat angående symbolism i drömmar och låter er döma själva.

”All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas (the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ… Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards and ovens represent the uterus, and also hollow objects, ships and vessels of all kinds. Rooms in dreams are usually women; if the various ways in and out of them are represented, this interpretation is scarcely open to doubt…. A dream of going through a suite of rooms is a brothel or harem dream…..

Steps, ladders or staircases, or, as the case may be, walking up or down them, are representations of the sexual act….

A woman’s hat can very often be interpreted with certainty as a genital organ, and, moreover, as a man’s. The same is true of an overcoat… In men’s dreams a neck-tie often apperas as a symbol for the penis….

It is highly probable that all complicated machiner and apparatus occuring in dreams stand for the genitals (and as a rule the male ones)…. Nor is there any doubt that all weapons and tools are used as symbols for the male organ: e.g. ploughs, hammers, rifles, revolvers, daggers, sabres, etc. In the same way many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing bridges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals….

Children in dreams often stand for the genitals…. Playing with a little child, beating it, etc., often represent masturbation in dreams. To represent castration symbolically, the dream-work makes use of baldness, hair-cutting, falling out of teeth and decapitation. If one of the ordinary symbols for a penis occurs in a dream doubled or multiplied, it is to be regarded as a warding off of castration….

The genitals can also be represented in dreams in other parts of the body: the male organ by a hand or a foot and the female genital orifice by the mouth or an ear or even an eye.”

- S. Freud, The interpretation of Dreams (New York; Basic Books, 1953), p 354-59.

Och apropå Hr. Munfröjd: Är han inte kusligt lik Bertil Enstöring?