Wednesday 9 March 2011

Cigars Are Not Usually Cigars

Freud's truism regarding cigars occassionally representing nothing but their own reality demonstrates the overwhelming nature of objects to possess metaphorical attributes, especially phallic objects. Whether in dreams, architecture, or orally injested substances, it seems that penises are everywhere. A cigar being merely a cigar is an abnormality, in a world where one is surrounded metaphorically by a bag of dicks. Similarly, the interconectedness and referrentiality of things makes it such that nothing is usually what it actually appears, and it is by definition odd or rare for genuine actuality to actually genuinely exist. Freud's cigar-as-cigar is thus itself a metaphorical reference to this rare idealized simplified reality, which itself is illusory, since no object exists in isolation. The point made is more easily understood as a warning to interpretation of dreams and fantasies, where symbols may be overestimated in lieu of less complicated explainations.

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