Freud would have said the same about garden hoses, had they existed in his day.
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Apparently he did in the 10th Lecture of " A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis" (1916-17)
In these other passages Freud associates retarded sexual and emotional development not with gun ownership, but with fear and loathing of weapons.
~Don B. Kates, Jr., Guns, Murders, and the Constitution -- A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control (Don Kates is a San Francisco criminologist and civil liberties lawyer).
And it fits with the *phallic symbols* of dream interpretation....."