SOURCE: Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, translated by A. A. Brill, Vintage Books, 1916, pp. 3-122.
In the following essay, originally published in German in 1910, Freud applies his methods of psychoanalytic investigation to Leonardo's writings. He makes controversial assertions regarding events in Leonardo's childhood and their effect on his later life, maintaining that evidence points to the artist's homosexuality and the sublimation of his sexual urges into his art.
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