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A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it 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.

The text includes the first full emergence of the concept of narcissism and develops Freud's theories of homosexuality.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. Working initially in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer, Freud elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system,... Read Full Overview

Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.Freud provides a psychoanalytical interpretation of Leonardo's The Virgin and... Read Full Overview

A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it 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.

Sigmund Freud was the Austrian neurologist who is considered to be the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud also contributed greatly to the analysis of dreams and sexuality. Freud's work remains very popular and relevant today. In Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego, Freud questions... Read Full Overview

Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.Freud provides a psychoanalytical... Read Full Overview

Da Vinci's source of genius - Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci. Sigmund Freud was the first to apply psychoanalysis to art. He choose for his subject the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. Making bold claims about Leonardo's sexuality, personality and... Read Full Overview

Vollst ndiger, digital restaurierter Reprint (in Handarbeit hergestellte Reproduktion/Faksimile) der Originalausgabe von 1910 mit exzellenter Aufl sung und hervorragender Lesbarkeit. Mit digitaler Original-Unterschrift von Sigmund Freud. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo... Read Full Overview