Volume 20, Number 2 · February 22, 1973
Shrinking History—Part One
By Robert Coles
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN PART ONE OF THIS ESSAY
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
by Sigmund Freud, translated by Alan Tyson, edited by James Strachey, edited by Alix Strachey, edited by Anna Freud, edited by Alan Tyson
Norton, 101 pp., $1.45 (paper)
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study
by Sigmund Freud, by William C. Bullitt
Houghton Mifflin, 307 pp., $6.00
Leonardo da Vinci: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Enigma
by Kurt Eissler
International Universities Press, 396 pp., $12.50
The Dynamics of Creation
by Anthony Storr
Atheneum, 248 pp., $7.95
Psychoanalysis and History
edited by Bruce Mazlich
Grosset and Dunlap, 217 pp., $2.45 (paper)
Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art
by Ernst Kris
Schocken, 396 pp., $3.45 (paper)
Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study
by Alexander George, by Juliette George
Dover, 382 pp., $2.50 (paper)
Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences, Vol. 4
edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad
International Universities Press, 295 pp., $6.00
In a letter dated October 9, 1898, Freud made mention of Leonardo da Vinci: he was 'perhaps the most famous left-handed individual,' and he 'is not known to have had any love affairs.' The letter was one of many addressed to Wilhelm Fliess. As Freud step by step began to formulate what we know today as psychoanalysis, he turned to his friend to present his thoughts openly and with some passion, as if he needed to ask whether all those ideas made any sense or were hopelessly out of kilter—useless notions prompted by the disturbed minds a psychiatrist sees, not to mention his own dreams and fantasies, which he had relied upon rather significantly in The Interpretation of Dreams.
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