{"id":6191,"date":"2013-09-07T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T09:45:43","slug":"playing-with-freud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/2013\/09\/07\/playing-with-freud\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing pareidolia with Freud&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/leonardo-da-vinci-eric-bourdon-artist-painter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/freud-vulture.jpg\" alt=\"Sigmund Freud vulture\" width=\"440\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/freud-vulture.jpg 440w, https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/freud-vulture-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/freud-vulture-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the shape of a vulture that Sigmund Freud, playing <a href=\"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/news\/2013\/06\/06\/pareidolia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;pareidolia&#8221;<\/a> without knowing it, found in Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s oil painting &#8220;The Virgin and Child with St. Anne&#8221; (1503-1519).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This vulture, that Sigmund Freud guessed was hidden in the folds of the garment of the Virgin, was the center of his speculations about Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s alleged homosexuality and views on women in his book <em>Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood<\/em> (1910).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If the vulture revealed anything, it was only about Freud&#8217;s personal obsessions. I&#8217;ve just found some other interesting shapes, highlighted in my latest work <a href=\"https:\/\/ericbourdon.com\/leonardo-da-vinci-eric-bourdon-artist-painter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sigmund Freud and a memory of his elephants&#8221;<\/a>. You will see just a few of them, solutions are innumerable&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the shape of a vulture that Sigmund Freud, playing &#8220;pareidolia&#8221; without knowing it, found in Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s oil painting &#8220;The Virgin and Child with St. Anne&#8221; (1503-1519). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This vulture, that Sigmund Freud guessed was hidden in the folds of the garment of the Virgin, was the center of his speculations about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,33,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applied-art","category-painting","category-pareidolia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Playing pareidolia with Freud... | Eric Bourdon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Freud saw the shape of a vulture in this oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. 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