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Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.
- Sigmund Freud
- 1910
Leonardo recorded his earliest childhood memory in his notebooks. Explaining his obsession with devising a machine for flying, he explains that as a baby, a kite (a kind of hawk with long tail-feathers), landed on him and stuck its tail feathers into his mouth, repeatedly hitting his lips with its feathers.
Leonardo de Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (1910): Freud’s “Only Beautiful Thing” “Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.”-- Kenneth Clark “Whoever turns biographer commits himself to lies, to concealment, to hypocrisy, to embellishments, and even to
Not only Sigmund Freud has managed to provide evidence for every statement claimed of Leonardo Da Vinci’s life but he has also successfully discriminated between assumptions and proofs. Here, Freud’s psychoanalysis is built upon Da Vinci’s childhood major events.
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A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud's first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and also his...
Jan 17, 1990 · Unlike other biographers who usually place great emphasis on artistic and scientific achievements of this maestro, Freud applied psycho-analytic approach to the demystification of sexual appetites of Leonardo da Vinci and how his childhood experience could have an influence on his masterpieces.
- Sigmund Freud
Dec 16, 2020 · Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood. The standard ed. translated from the German. by. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Publication date. 1964. Topics. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Psychoanalysis -- Case studies. Publisher. New York, Norton. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language.
