The Freudian Universe of Dalí

Thyssen-Bornemisza MuseumScore 90.9

The relationship between the work of Salvador Dalí and the writings of Sigmund Freud is one of the key issues that articulate the artist’s visual aesthetic. The circumstances of Dalí’s childhood and adolescence proved a fertile breeding ground for this relationship, which eventually became little less than an obsession and culminated in the meeting between the two men in 1938, when Freud was living in exile in…