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Feb 18, 2020 · The other drawing in pen and ink is the one Dalí reproduced in his autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, with the inscription: ‘“Morphology” of Sigmund Freud’s cranium following the principle of the snail’s spiral (left). Drawing from life two years before his death – Salvador Dalí’.
Feb 4, 2019 · Salvador Dalí’s first and only encounter with Sigmund Freud was fittingly bizarre. The pair met on 19 July 1938 at Freud’s home in London, where he had arrived just a few weeks earlier as a refugee from Nazi-occupied Vienna. By the time of their meeting, both Freud and Dalí had gained widespread recognition.
Sketching Freud in the drawing below, he wrote, “Freud’s cranium is a snail! His brain is in the form of a spiral—to be extracted with a needle!” One might see why Freud was suspicious of Surrealists, “who have apparently chosen me as their patron saint,” he wrote to Stefan Zweig, the mutual friend who introduced him to Dali.
Nov 16, 2022 · From as early as his student days Dali made extensive research into Freud’s analytical texts on the inner workings of the human mind, dreams, sexuality, and the human subconscious. All this meant Dali had longed for a chance to meet Freud for many years, and in 1938, his dream came true. Dali and Freud met in London for one time only, and ...
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Jan 11, 2019 · The show’s immediate subject, the moment when Salvador met Sigmund, emerges through letters, texts, drawings, artefacts, as marvellous comedy: Dalí’s desperation to impress (“before his ...
- Jackie Wullschläger
Salvador Dalí’s connection with Sigmund Freud is well-documented, beginning with his reading of Interpretation of Dreams, which Dalí regarded as one of the “capital discoveries” of his life. Well-versed in Freud’s theories of evaluating the subconscious for surreal and artistic inspiration, Dalí regarded dreams and imaginations central to human thought.
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The encounter between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí at Freud’s house in London in 1938 brought together two of the most influential figures of the 20th century. It also shone a spotlight on the relationship between psychoanalysis and surrealism. Dalí had long venerated Freud, and his paintings made abundant and imaginative use of the ...
