Overview
- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting El universo freudiano de Dalí, curated by Jaime Brihuega, with 128 works on display through January 24.
- The show is organized in six chronological and biographical stages that trace Dalí’s development from childhood and the Residencia de Estudiantes to his Paris years, the paranoiac‑critical method, the London meeting with Freud, and his later U.S. and religious/scientific phases.
- A focused core of about thirty paranoiac‑critical paintings, including El destete del mueble‑alimento (1934), Soledad paranoico‑crítica (1935) and El gran paranoico (1936), is presented as key evidence of Dalí’s formal method for generating multiple images and meanings from single forms.
- The exhibition highlights Dalí’s 1938 encounter with Sigmund Freud, displays a drawing he dedicated to Freud alongside other 1938 works, and links that moment to recurring Freudian themes across his career.
- Technical studies and radiographs, notably of Un segundo antes del despertar de un sueño provocado por el vuelo de una abeja alrededor de una granada, are exhibited alongside film and theatrical references to reveal Dalí’s painting process and to support a reassessment of how psychoanalysis stayed visible even after his turn to science and religion.