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Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood
1910 work by Sigmund Freud
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.
It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.
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The vulture fantasy
In the Codex Atlanticus Leonardo recounts being attacked as an infant in his crib by a bird. Freud cites the passage as:[1]
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, 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.
According to Freud, this was a childhood fantasy based on the memory of sucking his mother's nipple.
He backed up his claim with the fact that Egyptian hieroglyphs represent the mother as a vulture, because th