PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Psychobiography, Shift Work
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Freud as leonardo: why the first psychobiography went wrong. Unless you have other sources that have the same information, don"t build your whole argument on one fact. Freud gives the dream from leonardo (the vulture dream) he makes all kinds of interpretations based on that as well as references ancient legends as well as mythology. Based on these facts he deduces that leonardo must have spent the first few years of life with his mother. Another genius having a dream from a young age about birds that connect to ancient mythology, just like he did. Making the subject out to be ill, destroying the image of the person. Blackening the radiant and dragging the sublime into the dust . By saying that leonardo was homosexual, it blackened the image of. At the time, making claims that people are homosexual especially those who cannot defend themselves (because they"re dead) was not good.