[22]
Pressley, p. 603
[23]
They recall the Marquis de Sade's Philosophie dans le boudoir
(1795), in which women assume the role of furniture.
[24]
Errores Gazariorum,1450, by an anonymous Savoyard Inquisitor. There
is no edition, but see Jeffrey Burton Russell, History of Witchcraft
in the Middle Ages, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1972,
p. 239; and Henry Charles Lea, Materials Toward
a History of Witchcraft, 3
vols., edited by A. Howland, Phila., 1939; reprinted, New York,
1957.
See also Joseph Hansen, Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns
und der Hexenverfolgung im Mittelalter (Origin
and Examination of the History of Witch Madness and Persecution
in the Middle Ages), Bonn, 1901; reprinted, Hildesheim, 1963.
[25]
Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents,"
(London: Hogarth Press, 1930), 87.
[26]
William Jeffett (ed), Andre Masson: the 1930s, St Petersburg
Florida, Salvador Dali Museum, 1999,
p. 148.
[27]
Freud, S. E., XIV, "Thoughts for the Times
on War and Death," 14, 291.
[28)
Freud, S. E., "Civilization and Its
Discontents," p.103-4.
[29]
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 261; see
also 95, 96, 118, 123.
[30]
Dalí's creation of this painting
(1929-33, Vicomte de Noailles Collection, Paris) coincided with Dali's
initiation into the Surrealist movement, and with Masson's expulsion
("excommunication" was Breton's term) from it
in 1929. Rubin and Lanchner, 214.
[31]
Jeffett, p. 146. I wish to thank
poet, critic and publisher, Edwin Treitler, for his suggestions in writing
this study. A Release-Time Research
Grant from Long Island University at Brooklyn enabled me to write the
paper.
CAPTIONS:
Pygmalion,
1938, oil on canvas, 46x55 cm [18-1/8 x 21-5/8 inches]. Mr. Francois Odermatt, Miami Florida.
Gradiva
(Metamorphosis of Gradiva), 1939, oil on canvas, 36½ x 51¼ inches, former Nellens collection, Knokke, Belgium.
The
Louis XVI Armchair (Le fauteuil Louis XVI),
1938, oil on canvas, 73x60 cm [29¼ x 24 inches], Mrs Henry A Markus collection, Chicago.
Landscape
with Praying Mantis (Paysage á la mante religieuse),
1939, oil on canvas,
82x117 cm [32-7/8 x 47-7/8 inches], private collection.
Mansion
of Birds (Hôtel des oiseaux), 1938,
oil on canvas, 81x130 cm [31-7/8 x 51¼
inches].
The
Labyrinth (Le labyrinthe),
1938, oil on canvas, 118.1x60 cm [47½ x 24 inches], private
collection, Rome.
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