Monday, September 19, 2011

The Invisible Elephant in Every Freudian Room

Dreaming of Wealth, and other "wish fullfillments"?

8 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Name of the artist?

Thersites said...

Oh, Salvador Dali. His
burning house (or giraffes) usually represent "sexual desire"... and his Saint is always trying to "contain" it.

Thersites said...

Here's St. Anthony resisting some temptations...

Thersites said...

Dali claimed that his burning giraffe represented a “masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster” often a "prelude to war."

Thersites said...

It would appear from the St. Anthony painting that the more one "resists" a temptation, the more one must "distort" (sublimate) or elevate from it's foundations, the original desire...

Always On Watch said...

I thought it was Dali's work, but couldn't confirm in the little time I had to look up the info.

I do like some of Dali's work. Some of Dali's work makes a good composition prompt (creative writing).

Always On Watch said...

Remember, I'm a Spanish major. We studied Dali and Picasso.

Joe Conservative said...

Picasso would make for a good composition prompt as well.