Leonardo da Vinci
Category: Kindle Store,Kindle Short Reads,90 minutes (44-64 pages)
Leonardo da Vinci Details
When it comes to the world of psychiatry, one name has long stood out among the rest. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist who came to be known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis”. Freud himself suffered from psychosomatic symptoms yet would go on to develop groundbreaking theories on the unconscious mind and repression. Freud’s work in analyzing dreams has helped aid psychiatrists and patients alike to treat various physical and mental ailments.This version of Leonardo Da Vinci includes a table of contents.
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We are in 1910, about 400 years after Leonardo's death, this Freud guy is guessing about Da Vinci's source of genius; all around genius to be more precise. He started with the hypothesis that Leonardo was homosexual but managed to suppress his primal instincts redirecting his libido to investigations + art. The whole thing unfolds with two facts: a) Leonardo was an illegitimate son with no contact with his father during the early days; b) he had a dream with a vulture (Heck, Freud!). This smells like baloney, looks like baloney, quacks like baloney, but may be is a valid hypothesis. But Freud was no fool, he finishes the essay saying that life is a huge set of "accidents" and we have too little respect to nature (Leonardo’s main subject).