It was asserted of Leonardo's art that he took away the last remnant of
religious attachment from the holy figures and put them into human form in order
to depict in them great and beautiful human
feelings. Muther praises him for having overcome the feeling of decadence,canvas paintings for sale,and
for having returned to man the right of sensuality and pleasurable enjoyment.
The notices which show Leonardo absorbed in fathoming the great riddles of
nature do not lack any expressions of admiration for the creator, the last cause
of all these wonderful secrets, but nothing indicates that he wished to hold any
personal relation to this divine force. The sentences which contain the deep
wisdom of his last years breathe the resignation of the man who subjects himself
to the laws of nature and expects no alleviation from the kindness or grace of
God. There is hardly any doubt that Leonardo had vanquished dogmatic as well as
personal religion, and through his work of investigation he had withdrawn far
from the world aspect of the religious Christian. art oil paintings online
From our views mentioned before in the development of the infantile psychic
life, it becomes clear that also Leonardo's first investigations in childhood
occupied themselves with the problems of sexuality. But he himself betrays it to us through a transparent veil, in that he
connects his impulse to investigate with the vulture phantasy, and in
emphasizing the problem of the flight of the bird as one whose elaboration
devolved upon him through special concatenations of fate. A very obscure as well
as a prophetically sounding passage in his notes dealing with the flight of the
bird demonstrates in the nicest way with how much affective interest he clung to
the wish that he himself should be able to imitate, the art of flying: "The
human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement,oil painting reproductions, all
writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he
sprang." He probably hoped that he himself would sometimes be able to fly, and
we know from the wish fulfilling dreams of people what bliss one expects from
the fulfillment of this hope.
But why do so many people dream that they are able to fly? Psychoanalysis
answers this question by stating that to fly or to be a bird in the dream is
only a concealment of another wish, to the recognition of which one can reach by
more than one linguistic or objective bridge.
When the inquisitive child is told that a big bird like the stork brings the
little children, when the ancients have formed the phallus winged, when the
popular designation of the sexual activity of man is expressed in German by the
word "to bird" (vögeln), when the male member is directly called
l'uccello (bird) by the Italians,cheap oil paintings for sale, all these facts are only small
fragments from a large collection which teaches us that the wish to be able to
fly signifies in the dream nothing more or less than the longing for the ability
of sexual accomplishment. This is an early infantile wish. When the grown-up
recalls his childhood it appears to him as a happy time in which one is happy
for the moment and looks to the future without any wishes,oil paintings for sale, it is for this reason
that he envies children. But if children themselves could inform us about it
they would probably give different reports. It seems that childhood is not that
blissful Idyl into which we later distort it, that on the contrary children are
lashed through the years of childhood by the wish to become big, and to imitate
the grown ups. This wish instigates all their playing. If in the course of their sexual investigation children feel that
the grown up knows something wonderful in the mysterious and yet so important
realm, what they are prohibited from knowing or doing, they are seized with a
violent wish to know it, and dream of it in the form of flying, or prepare this
disguise of the wish for their later flying dreams. Thus aviation, which has
attained its aim in our times, has also its infantile erotic roots. frames for oil paintings
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