We will talk about a “substitute child”, “Salvador Dali”. The definition of "replacement" child is, in the narrowest sense, a term used for the child of parents who have a second child to fill the gap after the death of their child. (By the way, I should add that Van Gogh was also a substitute child) Dali was also born with this heavy burden. He said this: "I experienced my death before I lived my life." explains as follows. He mentions that he had two obsessions that paralyzed him during adolescence; One of them is that he is very afraid of contracting a venereal disease, and the other is that he believes that he is impotent.
In the picture you see his famous work "The Great Masturbator (1929)". The main element in this painting, which he painted when he met Gala and which can be described as almost autobiographical, is the portrait of a yellow giant with closed and distorted eyes, giving the impression that Dali is asleep or dreaming. In addition to an eye with long eyelashes, a flattened forehead, a large nose, and rosy cheeks, it can be noticed that the giant portrait has no mouth. This gives the picture a frightening quality. The face looks like it is either sleeping or paralyzed by a grasshopper climbing on it. A grasshopper, which he has been phobic about since childhood, is perched right under his huge nose. Blue veins on the grasshopper's body, which remind him of death, are climbing towards his face. The only moving element in the picture is a woman licking her lips. The profile was enlarged to monumental dimensions. Metamorphosis is noticeable in the neck. From this metamorphosis arises a woman with an erect sexual organ and little interest in the outside world. In this painting, sexuality is clearly associated with castration and death. In this picture and other pictures from that period, it is repeatedly emphasized that only masturbation is safe.
Sexuality and sexual dysfunctions are problems that patients hesitate to talk about and have difficulty explaining.
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