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Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey · 1910

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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.

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ItalyItalyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 144 pages
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