When, in 1910, Freud published a childhood memory
Leonardo da Vinci, this is actually
more than ten years he began questioning
the work and the person of the artist.
His analysis, exciting, is based on this
I consider the most beautiful painting
Leonardo, the most beautiful because most troubling
and most fascinating: The Virgin, the Infant Jesus
and Saint Anne, visible at the Louvre,
and a fabulous cardboard visible in London:
The Virgin and Child with Saint
Anne and St. John the Baptist, who may
served as the preparatory drawing precedent.
As always with Freud, demonstration
is extremely well supported and bold,
you only have to be convinced to see
the number of heated debates and arguments
contradictory that this essay has generated.
After a short preface in which
he curiously takes two lines of a poem
Schiller dedicated to Joan of Arc - The
Everyone loves to blacken the rayon
to drag the sublime into the dust - Freud
developing six chapters, the first
the opposition of the drive at Vinci
creative and scientific reason,
the second interpretation fantasy
a hidden picture in picture,
this is where our painting in the Louvre,
and we will of course return, the third
the homosexual characteristic of Leonardo,
the fourth memory retentive
of the mother, which can smile again in
the most beautiful faces painted by da Vinci,
St. Anne at the Mona Lisa through John the Baptist,
fifth in opposition to the father,
by which one can explain the insatiable
curiosity of the son, the sixth finally the role
chance in the development of a work
likely to cross the centuries. However,
take the test around you if you
Friends who have read A childhood memory
they will automatically reference to
Chapter two, as if he summarized the book
alone. Or rather, as if they
remembered as one. The theory,
or fancy as you want, image
hidden in the image, based on the books
Leonardo da Vinci. "It seems, are written
the latter, he was already assigned me
previously of interest to me as fundamentally
the vulture, for he comes to mind
as being still very first memory
the cradle, a vulture came down to me,
opened my mouth with its tail and,
repeatedly hit my lips
of that tail. "And indeed, Oskar
Pfister, a founder of the Company
Swiss psychoanalysis, with which Freud
maintains a regular correspondence, fact
an extraordinary discovery: a vulture
is hidden in a little extravagant drape
of the Virgin, identifiable in its curved beak.
It does not take more to Sigmund Freud
finally undertake psychoanalytic reading
Vinci to which it aspires since
years, although the picture disgorged symbols,
Marie fertility, infertility Anne,
sacrificial lamb, or water of baptism
tragic destiny of Jesus. Teaming up
the vulture to the mother figure, the founder
of psychoanalysis believes that Leonardo
became abstinent or homosexual sex because
opinions differ on this point, after
converting his unfinished sexuality
infant in a frantic drive to know
that is the genius of Leonardo da Vinci.
Among the accusers of Freud, many
argued a mistranslation of the word
vulture, Leonardo is the original text
translating into reality by kite, bird
of prey whose beak resembles more
that of a hawk. But the painter
I ask: if Leonardo placed
this bird in his painting unconsciously,
then we are dealing with a child's drawing,
and so there is no reason why
the beak of this bird is realistic.
