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Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood. 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.
Jan 17, 1990 · Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) Paperback – January 17, 1990.
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- W. W. Norton & Company
- $15.95
- Sigmund Freud
Kindle $2.00. Rate this book. Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, James Strachey (Editor) 3.45. 1,515 ratings176 reviews. Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.
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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
The diverse legends about Leonardo da Vinci began as early as Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists (1550), and it seems his work has been periodically rediscovered in such a way that he represents a new ideal for a new generation.
Summary: Part 1, “Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood” Freud opens his essay on the famous Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci by claiming that the psychical functioning of the most brilliant of people is equally as mysterious as that of the mentally-unwell patients with whom psychiatric research is normally concerned.
