Leonardo da Vinci

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the principal founder of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It remained Freud's favourite composition. Compressing many of his insights into a few pages, the result is a fascinating picture of some of Freud's fundamental ideas, including human sexuality, dreams, and repression. It is an equally compelling - and controversial - portrait of Leonardo and the creative forces that according to Freud lie behind some of his great works, including the Mona Lisa.

With a new foreword by Maria Walsh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415854672
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Routledge Great Minds
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). The founding father of psychoanalysis, Freud is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era.

Table of Contents

1. Foreword to the Routledge Great Minds 2. Preface to the 1922 Edition 3. Editor's note 4. Leonardo da Vinci: a memory of his childhood

Editorial Reviews

'Freud's Leonardo changed the art of biography forever. Henceforth none would be complete without a rummage through the subject's childhood origins.' – Oliver James

'The domain of biography, too, must become ours . . . The riddle of Leonardo da Vinci's character has suddenly become transparent to me. That, then, would be the first step in biography.' - Sigmund Freud, letter to Carl Gustav Jung, October 1909

'Freud's Leonardo changed the art of biography forever. Henceforth none would be complete without a rummage through the subject's childhood origins.' - Oliver James

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