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Reconsidering Freud’s “Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood”
By ZoomFreud’s 1910 pathography of Leonardo da Vinci is the the point of origin for a common cliché of gay male development — enmeshed mother, absent father — that has had wide influence on psychoanalytic thinking about homosexuality for more than a century. Despite the work’s prominence in our profession, it has never been the subject of a rigorous critique. This …
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