was often annoyed
by the fact that his smokes
were the butt of lewd jokes.
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) is considered to be the originator of psychoanalysis. An apocryphal story recounts that Freud was lecturing at a University about the sexual symbolism of objects. When someone asked what meaning might be attached to the phallic smokes that Freud was never without, he famously replied "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
