Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s a loaded symbol in an imagined conversation between world-famous “sex doc” Sigmund Freud (played by Anthony Hopkins, in irritable curmudgeon mode) ...

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Well, I’ve been mulling over Huffington’s retort for about 24 hours now, and I’ve finally figured out what is so fucking strange about this response. Let’s start with Freud. Sigmund probably never ...

In “The Tobacconist,” set in 1937 Vienna, Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz, in one of his last screen roles) never says, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” This is to the film’s credit; much of director ...

Groucho, correcting Sigmund Freud, famously quipped, “a cigar is sometimes just a cigar.” But sometimes a cigar is more. So too Donald Trump’s petite hands. In today’s history profession, where ...