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Yes, unfortunately I must agree with Jerry Friedmann. Unfortunately,
because crude symbolism was something Freud had almost banished from
the first edition of "Die Traumdeutung" (1900). He only reintroduced it
in the second edition (1909) not to be outdone by Stekel (who had
published a dream-book full of symbols), and so it is the "phallic
symbol" that is now, alas, the universally recognised emblem of Freud's
passion. Whereas his true originality (in the first edition) was in the
idea that the dream interpreter cannot read off the dream's meaning
from a dictionary of banal symbols, but must rely on the dreamer's
"Freier Einfall" (poorly translated as "free association") for the
meaning to disclose itself.
Jansy is right that phallic symbolism is as old as the (phallic) hills.
Freud's original position was much more interesting.
Anthony Stadlen