This Freud saying is apparently part of Freudian folklore.
What was probably said by someone else :
"Even for Freud, a cigar is just a cigar".
Apparently, this statement may have came from Freud replying to a question during a the famous Clark University lectures. Freud , describing the latent sexual meaning and significance of dream symbols, when someone asked, "You seem to smoke a lot of cigars, what does *that* symbolize?" Thus issued the famous but apparently unconfirmed, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." It sounds like Freud and is consistent with his persistant refusal to analyse his addition with cigars.
"You seem to smoke a lot of cigars, does *that* symbolize you want to wear your mother's clothes? " .
"Do you believe dreams are images of the subconscious strung together?"
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Hhmmm.
A Freudian slip comes from the subconcious mind and cannot be engineered.
To be engineered , it must be recognisable and hence would have moved from the sub-consciuos to the conscious and then be made sense of.
It's interesting that Ernest notices his writing has Freudian slips.
I'll be looking for Freudian slips in Jess in Action, Ernest.
The mind is like an iceberg ! :roll:
My navel is an innie. (More of a navel-gazing slip
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regards
[ October 05, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]