Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence - Couverture souple

Freud, Sigmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1578988209 ISBN 13 : 9781578988204

Editeur : Martino Fine Books, 2010

Synopsis

2010 Reprint of 1916 English Edition. Leonardo da Vinci remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output. A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, this work represents Freud's first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and also his effort to trace one route that homosexual development can take.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian Renaissance, still even then he appeared as mysterious to them as he now appears to us. An all–sided genius, "whose form can only be divined but never deeply fathomed,"[1] he exerted the most decisive influence on his time as an artist; and it remained to us to recognize his greatness as a naturalist which was united in him with the artist. Although he left masterpieces of the art of painting, while his scientific discoveries remained unpublished and unused, the investigator in him has never quite left the artist, often it has severely injured the artist and in the end it has perhaps suppressed the artist altogether. According to Vasari, Leonardo reproached himself during the last hour of his life for having insulted God and men because he has not done his duty to his art.[2] And even if Vasari's story lacks all probability and belongs to those legends which began to be woven about the mystic master while he was still living, it nevertheless retains indisputable value as a testimonial of the judgment of those people and of those times.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martino Fine Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1578988209
• ISBN 13: 9781578988204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
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