The Seba library treats Hat in 3 passages, across 2 authors (including Jung, C.G., Freud, Sigmund).
A man wears his hat in the street, where other people see him, when he is respectable, which means when he can be seen. Therefore he is presentable.
Jung articulates the hat as the quintessential persona-object: its social function is to signal respectability and conformity to collective norms, rendering the wearer legible and acceptable to the public world.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
No doubt the hat was a male genital organ, with its m sticking up and its two side-pieces hanging down.
Freud interprets a dream-hat as a phallic symbol determined by its morphology, reading the displacement of genital anxiety onto headgear as exemplary of the dream-work’s substitutive logic.
, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900thesis
After these scenes in the dream he goes downstairs with his wife and hunts for his hat, which he cannot find, so h
The motif of the lost hat is linked in the seminar discussion to the collapse of conventional persona functioning following orgiastic or transgressive psychic experience, suggesting that persona-dissolution is marked symbolically by the hat’s disappearance.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting