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Salvador Dalí The Dream (Le Rêve), 1931 |
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Salvador Dalí The Dream (Le Rêve), 1931 This painting gives visual form to the strange, often disturbing world of dreams and hallucinations. Ants swarm over a mouthless face with bulging eyelids. The seated man with a bleeding face and amputated left foot (also holding a golden scepter symbolizing access to the unconscious) refers to Oedipus, the tragic figure from Greek mythology who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Sigmund Freud interpreted this myth as symbolic of a child's conflicting attitudes toward his or her parents, known in psychoanalytic theory as the Oedipus complex. The column sprouting from the seated man's back turns into the bust of a bearded figure, a reference to the Freudian father as the punishing superego who condemns the sons sexual fantasies. In the distance a clothed man and a naked man embrace, while another naked figure reaches one arm into a large red form to penetrate its surface.
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