[Ads-l] locomotives as female

[Christopher Philippo]

On Apr 25, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Interestingly enough, Freud himself seems not to have specified trains in
> the imagination as phallic symbols alone. (And perhaps not at all: I
> haven’t unearthed a quote.)

All elongated objects, Freud claimed without a shred of evidence, are phallic symbols.

Freud is, of course, bunk.  And again, at best it was a throwaway gag by Hitchcock that does not deserve much thought.
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