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Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood: (The Standard Edition) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) (Paperback)

by Sigmund Freud (Author), James Strachey (Series Editor) "When psychiatric research, normally content to draw on frailer men for its material, approaches one who is among the greatest of the human race, it..." (more)
Key Phrases: vulture phantasy, childhood phantasy, infantile sexual researches, Mona Lisa, Ser Piero da Vinci, Donna Albiera (more...)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output. 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.

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (January 17, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393001490
ISBN-13: 978-0393001495
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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When psychiatric research, normally content to draw on frailer men for its material, approaches one who is among the greatest of the human race, it is not doing so for the reasons so frequently ascribed to it by laymen. Read the first page

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Mona Lisa, Ser Piero da Vinci, Donna Albiera, Leonardo da Vinci, Codex Atlanticus, Fathers of the Church, Three Essays, Francesco Sforza, Lodovico Sforza

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sublimation, Eros and Vultures, February 12, 2001

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Freud's attempt to apply the concepts and generalisations of psychoanalysis to the Universal Man, Leonardo da Vinci. The formulations reached in the book have now become "pop-Freudian" cliches: the subject was doted on by his mother, neglected by his father and therefore developed a homosexual streak. What occured exactly, according to Freud, was an inordinate Oedipal development in which the subject took his father's domination of the mother as a "de facto" domination (hence prohibition on the father's part) of *all* women and hence it triggered a shift from heterosexual to homosexual tendencies. Freud applies his doctrine of infantile sexuality to address other topics such as Leonardo's prodigious genius, his scientific pursuits and the fact that he left so many works unfinished. The study is speculative and tendentious and, which is more, it is marred by an egregious error in the translation of one of Leonardo's notebooks. Its major shortcoming is its rather reckless and overconfident attempt to reconstruct the psycholgy of a man dead for centuries. For zealous partisans of psychoanalysis only, or for those who have an academic interest in the subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A mistake or two, still great, July 5, 2008

By	Ferdinando Cortese "alfredo" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are a couple of mistakes in this book. Freud translate "nibbio" into vulture instead of kite. He also questions Leonardo's "active" homosexuality, but this was a "well known fact" in Florence. The discussion on repression and sublimation reveals, in my opinion, some limits of his theory as these terms are hard to define. However the discussion on the two paintings, the Monna Lisa and Sant'Anna and the Madonna with the child and on some of the roots of homosexuality is great, and Freud is a great writer.

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1.0 out of 5 stars he did better with Gradiva...., January 8, 2002

By	Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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. Lame.

As always, though, Freud at least arrives in the ballpark, even if he doesn't understand the game. Initial memories are often strangely prophetic, even when constructed out of fantasy; and so perhaps the fantastic kite--known for its interesting flight configurations--suckled the young Leonardo's latent inventive urges, or even symbolized their later expression.

Note: in this study first appears Freud's use of the term Eros, which he later makes such a fundamental part of his theory.

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4.0 out of 5 stars If you're interested in Fine art and psychoanalysis? READ it
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