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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
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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 da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about the childhood of Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.
a Memory of His Childhood is both an exercise in hermeneutics and in rhetorical persuasion. Freud is not only offering an exegesis of the various clues—notebooks, dreams, . Chapter I Commentary. Compare Brill’s translation of the opening paragraph with the Standard Edition version:
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
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 effort to trace one route that homosexual development can take.
Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud's first...
