Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci

Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci | Jonathan Jones via The Guardian.

Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

Renaissance meets reason … Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

From Jonathan Jones

guardian.co.uk Blogposts Mon 29 Mar 2010 11:44 BST

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Circus Archetypes – Tim Boucher

I’ve enjoyed a meander into Tim Boucher’s website this evening. He has a good sense of coex systems and patterns of the psyche.

CIRCUS CHARACTERS, History, Archetypes & Symbolism by Tim Boucher (Dead link)

Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20100317104050/http://circuscharacters.org

The circus is a place where dreams and reality intersect, where the limits of human ability and perception are tested and surpassed. It is a place of escape from the everyday (to “run away and join the circus”), a place of spectacle & entertainment, and a proving ground for the human imagination. In this article, we’ll explore some of the primordial archetypal characters from the circus and carnival tradition, and connect them with pastiche of historical context and symbolic meaning.



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