How did Freud influence Dalí's work?
Freud was the lodestar of my intellectual firmament. His exploration of the unconscious, dreams, and the latent meaning behind our desires provided the very scaffolding for Surrealism and my own creative processes. I embraced his theories of psychoanalysis not as a patient, but as an artist seeking to excavate the fertile ground of the irrational. The id, the ego, the Oedipal complex – these were not just concepts but landscapes to be painted, written, and ultimately, conquered.
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