The Freud "fear and loathing" quote is like the Yamamoto quote about Pearl Harbor usually given in some form of:
I fear that all we have done has been to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
compared to the actual 1942 quote:
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
It is a paraphrase that has over time got put in quotes and attributed to the source.
However "Fear and loathing of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" is not a paraphrase of Freud from Kates.
Kates' article is available at
http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_katesreal.html
GUNS, MURDERS, AND THE CONSTITUTION, A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control, By Don B. Kates, Jr., discusses the "Penis theory" of gun control or "The idea of gun ownership as sexual aberration has been casually espoused by such anti-gun luminaries as Arthur Schlessinger Jr., Harlan Ellison, Mike Royko, and Joyce Brothers."
A final point of interest is Dr. Tanay's citation of Freud's view that weapons may symbolize the penis in dreams. This, Freud said, is true of dreams involving any long object (e.g., "sticks, umbrellas, poles, trees") but especially objects that may be viewed as penetrating and injuring ("... knives, daggers, lances, sabers; firearms are similarly used ..."). This passage refers to dreams in general without distinguishing gun owners from others. Dr. Tanay is perhaps unaware of--in any event, he does not cite--other passages more relevant to his argument. In these other passages Freud associates retarded sexual and emotional development not with gun ownership, but with fear and loathing of weapons.[49]....
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[49] Compare the passage from the 10th Lecture (at 507 of The Major Writings of Sigmund Freud, Great Books ed., 1952), which Dr. Tanay does cite, to S. Freud & D. Oppenheim, Dreams in Folklore (1958) at 33.
Freud more than once associated fear and loathing of symbolic weapons with the sexual phobias and anxieties of neurotic people.
The example cited in footnote 49: "Dreams in Folklore", by Sigmund Freud and D.E. Oppenheim, International Universities Press, Inc, New York, 1958.
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?seq=11&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015002166091&u=1&num=33
In reference to interpretation of a dream in which a woman was trying to draw a dagger and woke up to find herself pulling on her husband, Freud and Oppenheim wrote at page 33:
"The representation of the penis as a weapon, cutting knife, dagger etc., is familiar to us from the anxiety dreams of abstinent women in particular and also lies at the root of numerous phobias in neurotic people."
what does that even mean
It implies that anti-gunners who use the "penis theory" are projectionists. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_(psychology))