This may not be quite relevant to what you're working on, but there is at least one predecessor for this genre: an eighteenth-century caricature of Voltaire's head made up of all sorts of orgiastic scenes. I can't remember exactly where I saw it, but it may have been in Klaus Theweleit's "Männerphantasien", which I don't have handy. Maybe someone else knows.
Dan Wilson
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Dear all,
I am looking for the source of the famous Sigmund Freud caricature "What is on an man's mind" which depicts his face composed of nude women. See for example here:
http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/%5C7%5C725%5C4TSA000Z.jpg
Although the image is quite often reprinted in contemporary popular culture I wasn's able to locate a reliable source for its origin so far, neither through Freud specialists nor though the internet.
Does anybody have a clue where this caricature was first published and by whom? Is it contemporary to Freud or a later invention?
Many thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Simon Bunke
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