...Freud only one clue was needed, and that was furnished by this innocent note in Leonardo's papers: "It seems that it had been destined before that I...struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. " A little reflection suggests that this strange infantile memory is an erotic recollection of his...

...earliest reminiscence. The memory of Leonardo referred to is given by Freud as follows : "It occurs to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still...struck me a few times with his tail against my lips." That a person could retain a memory of the nursing period is not impossible, but Freud believes this...

...records in his notebooks, the only recollection of childhood in all of his writings. In Freud's version: It seems that it had been destined before that I should...was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, opened my mouth with his tail, and struck me many times with his tail against my lips. Because Freud's...

...Leonardo's relation to his art on a memory or fantasy that Leonardo recorded in his scientific notebooks: It seems that it had been destined before that I should...was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, opened my mouth with his tail and struck me many times with his tail against my lips. (33-34) For Freud,...

...infantile memory, and to be sure, of the strangest sort. (FREUD commands SARAFIN to speak.) SARAFIN. It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the question of flight, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle,...

...of passive homosexuality, fixated on his mother, stepmother and grandmother? Dr Freud investigates. As far as I know Leonardo only once interspersed in...struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.' We have here an infantile memory and to be sure of the strangest sort. It is strange on account of...