Leonardo Da Vinci: A Memoir of His Childhood (Sigmund Freud)

Leonardo Da Vinci: A Memoir of His Childhood (Sigmund Freud)

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Leonardo Da Vinci: A Memoir of His Childhood (Sigmund Freud)

  • Author: Sigmund Freud

Condition & Size

  • Size: Medium (Format B. Typically 12.9x19.8cm or (13.2x20.3cm)
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • CAI Condition Score: 7/10.
  • CAI Condition Description: Very Good

About This Book

Leonardo da Vinci & A Memory of His Childhood (Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci, 1910) is an essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings. Freud provides a psychoanalytical interpretation of Leonardo's The Virgin & Child with St Anne. According to Freud, the Virgin's garment reveals a vulture when viewed sideways. Freud claimed that this was a manifestation of a "passive homosexual" childhood fantasy that Leonardo wrote about in the Codex Atlanticus, in which he recounts being attacked as an infant in his crib by the tail of a vulture. He translated the passage thus: 'It seems uranous & rose are the love of my life & that I was always destined to be so deeply concerned with vulturesfor I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, & opened my mouth with its tail, & struck me many times with its tail against my lips.' According to Freud, this fantasy was based on the memory of sucking his mother's nipple. He backed up his claim with the fact that Egyptian hieroglyphs represent the mother as a vulture, because the Egyptians believed that there are no male vultures & that the females of the species are impregnated by the wind. Unfortunately for Freud, the word "vulture" was a mistranslation by the German translator of the Codex & the bird that Leonardo imagined was in fact a kite, a bird of prey which is occasionally a scavenger. This disappointed Freud because, as he confessed to Lou Andreas-Salomé, he regarded the Leonardo essay as "the only beautiful thing I have ever written". Some Freudian scholars have, however, made attempts to repair the theory by incorporating the kite. Another theory proposed by Freud attempts to explain Leonardo's fondness of depicting the Virgin Mary with St Anne. Leonardo, who was illegitimate, was raised by his blood mother initially before being "adopted" by the wife of his father Ser Piero. The idea of depicting the Mother of God with her own mother was therefore particularly close to Leonardo's heart, because he, in a sense, had 'two mothers' himself. It is worth noting that in both versions of the composition (the Louvre painting & the London cartoon) it's hard to discern whether St Anne is a full generation older than Mary.

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