Leonardo da Vinci
A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence
Its readings
Each reading names its framework and its evidence. A student or an editor proposes it, and it stands once it is signed.
Freud: psychoanalytic biography
The reading of a life through its works and its earliest memories, as Freud gives it in the Leonardo study of 1910.
Freud reads the Louvre Saint Anne, to which the Met connects this head, as the synthesis of Leonardo’s childhood: two mothers, Caterina and Donna Albiera, the history he also reads in the vulture phantasy.
- Supports
As a matter of fact Leonardo gave the boy two mothers, the one who stretched out her arms after him and another who is seen in the background, both are represented with the blissful smile of maternal happiness.
Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci ch. IV - Supports
when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci ch. II - Challenges
as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci §1363 (C. A. 248a) - ChallengesMeyer Schapiro, Leonardo and Freud pp. 147–178
- Supports