tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888411.post113797581994838929..comments2024-03-23T05:20:41.018-06:00Comments on Dan Agonistes: Flights of the MindDan Agonisteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07863051818485888739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888411.post-1138159938716762162006-01-24T20:32:00.000-07:002006-01-24T20:32:00.000-07:00You write: "But probably more disturbing, since I ...You write: "But probably more disturbing, since I can forgive an author for going with his strength, is Nicholl's constant Freudian over-analysis. It starts early with a dream that Leonardo recounts of a bird near his crib all the way to the painting of St. John the Baptist near the end of this life and doesn't let up in between. Applying pop-psychology to a man who has been dead 500 years and from another culture seems a little bit presumptuous if you ask me. And yes, he treats Leonardo's supposed homosexually and throws it into the mix." <BR/>Yes, seems to me quite a disturbing trend in many recent biographies. And to make it worse, the authors seem to make Freudian observations when the subject lived a long time ago. It's as if they feel that using now discredited psychological theories is OK as long as the object of their analysis lived over two hundred years ago. Weird.uncahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953081987726436269noreply@blogger.com