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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
Childhood: 1452-1467. 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.
Jan 17, 1990 · In this small book Freud takes a mistranslated childhood memory of Leonardo's--one in which a kite (Freud thought it a vulture) opens the baby's mouth with its tail feathers--and makes a case for a genius born out of wedlock left alone too much with his mother, and therefore prone to homosexuality.
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- W. W. Norton & Company
- $15.95
- Sigmund Freud
Jun 25, 2020 · Abstract. Previous considerations of Freud’s 1910 pathography of Leonardo da Vinci have grappled mainly with errors of fact (among them a mistranslation in the study’s signature childhood memory, widely known since the 1950s). Here a more consequential flaw is examined: Freud’s fatefully pathogenic framing of Leonardo’s homosexuality.
- Rajiv Gulati, David Pauley
- 2020
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian renaissance; yet in their time he had already begun to seem an enigma, just as he does to us to-day.
Jun 24, 1999 · A 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 effort to trace one route that homosexual development can take. TABLE OF CONTENTS. chapter | 20 pages. Leonardo Da Vinci: A Memory Of His Childhood. chapter | 12 pages.
