Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile ReminiscenceFreud, Sigmund
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Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence
Freud, Sigmund
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Views on art; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Painters -- Italy -- Biography; Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
[32] Horapollinis Niloi Hieroglyphica edidit Conradus Leemans
Amstelodami, 1835. The words referring to the sex of the vulture read as
follows (p. 14): "μητἑρα μἑν ἑπειδἡ ἁρρεν ἑν τοὑτω γἑνει τὡων οὑχ ὑπἁρχει."
[33] E. Müntz, 1. c., p. 282.
[34] E. Müntz, 1. c.
[35] See the illustrations in Lanzone l. c. T. CXXXVI-VIII.
[36] v. Römer l. c.
[37] Cf. the observations in the Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und
Psychopathologische Forschungen, Vol. I, 1909.
[38] Cf. Richard Payne Knight: The Cult of Priapus.
[39] Prominently among those who undertook these investigations are I.
Sadger, whose results I can essentially corroborate from my own
experience. I am also aware that Stekel of Vienna, Ferenczi of Budapest,
and Brill of New York, came to the same conclusions.
[40] Edm. Solmi: Leonardo da Vinci, German translation, p. 152.
[41] Solmi, 1. c. p. 203.
[42] Leonardo thus behaves like one who was in the habit of making a
daily confession to another person whom he now replaced by his diary.
For an assumption as to who this person may have been see Merejkowski,
p. 309.
[43] M. Herzfeld: Leonardo da Vinci, 1906, p. 141.
[44] The wording is that of Merejkowski, 1. c. p. 237.
[45] The equestrian monument of Francesco Sforza.
[46] The full wording is found in M. Herzfeld, 1. c. p. 45.
[47] Merejkowski 1. c.--As a disappointing illustration of the vagueness
of the information concerning Leonardo's intimate life, meager as it is,
I mention the fact that the same expense account is given by Solmi with
considerable variation (German translation, p. 104). The most serious
difference is the substitution of florins by soldi. One may assume that
in this account florins do not mean the old "gold florins," but those
used at a later period which amounted to 1-2/3 lira or 33-1/2
soldi.--Solmi represents Caterina as a servant who had taken care of
Leonardo's household for a certain time. The source from which the two
representations of this account were taken was not accessible to me.
[48] "Caterina came in July, 1493."
[49] The manner of expression through which the repressed libidio could
manifest itself in Leonardo, such as circumstantiality and marked
interest in money, belongs to those traits of character which emanate
from anal eroticism. Cf. Character und Analerotik in the second series
of my Sammlung zur Neurosenlehre, 1909, also Brill's Psychoanalysis, its
Theories and Practical Applications, Chap. XIII, Anal Eroticism and
Character, Saunders, Philadelphia.
[50] Seidlitz: Leonardo da Vinci, II Bd., p. 280.
[51] Geschichte der Malerei, Bd. I, p. 314.
[52] l. c. p. 417.
[53] A. Conti: Leonardo pittore, Conferenze Fiorentine, l. c. p. 93.
[54] l. c. p. 45.
[55] W. Pater: The Renaissance, p. 124, The Macmillan Co., 1910.
[56] M. Herzfeld: Leonardo da Vinci, p. 88.
[57] Scognamiglio, l. c. p. 32.
[58] L. Schorn, Bd. III, 1843, p. 6.
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