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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 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.
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.
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
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.
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...
