A quotation often attributed to Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, cautions against finding significance where there is none: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
He also allegedly said that “time spent with cats is never wasted,” so take Freud with a grain of salt.
But nowhere is his advice ignored more fervently than in politics, where ascribing psychological motivations for transgressions perceived or real is our lifeblood.