Howmight the man with the staff whom Young Goodman Brown meets in the woods equate with a Freudian psycholanalyst?

This is
a great question.

The detail in your question ("the man with the
staff") makes me think of the famous photographs of Freud with his cigar (see the second
source for one such image). Both staff and cigar serve as a characterizing feature somehow and
suggest a sort of phallic authority or mastery or, at the very least, a tool of self-discovery.
The man with the staff in Hawthorne's story, after all, makes a second walking stick out of a
maple branch and tosses it to