El universo freudiano de Dalí

The catalog explores one of the defining obsessions of Salvador Dalí‘s career: his fascination with Sigmund Freud. Dalí first read Freud in translation in the early 1920s, as a student at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. The interest soon grew into an obsession that shaped his visual language, and in July 1938 Dalí finally met the exiled Freud in London.

Organized in six chronological sections, the book follows this relationship across Dalí’s entire career: from his family world and early surrealist years, through the paranoiac-critical method, to the London meeting, his move to the United States and the late work.

Dalí’s paintings and drawings, lent by the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, the Museo Reina Sofía, The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida and private collections, are shown in dialogue with works by Jean Arp, Arnold Böcklin, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Gino Severini, Yves Tanguy and others, as well as Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s drawings of neurons.

With essays by Jaime Brihuega, Dawn Ades, William Jeffett and Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, the catalog is essential for collectors and readers interested in Dalí, Surrealism and the meeting of art and psychoanalysis.