...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories, that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips. So important does Freud find this sentence that he announces his intent to use it,...

...artist's youth: I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips [Freud, 1910/1964, p. 32]. Freud added the following footnote to the second (1919)...

...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips ' " Much has been written about the fact that, as the Editor of the Standard Edition...

...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips" (1910b, p. 82). We are concerned here only with interpretation of the memory-fantasy...

...[kites] ; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture [kite] came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips."10 The second scene is constructed by Freud in the course of his unorthodox analysis...

...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips" (82). The "memory" of the vulture's tail beating about inside the child's mouth, Freud...

...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail,...struck me many times with its tail between my lips." Memory or fantasy, the psychological content is in any event the same. An image of infantile suckling,...

...with vultures; for I recall one of my very earliest memories, that while I was in the cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips. (Freud, 1910/1957, quoted by Coles, 1987, p. 85) experience. The desire to suck on...

...vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips." Cited in "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood" (1910), in Standard Edition...

...Leonardo remarks that one of his earliest childhood memories is of lying in his cradle when " 'a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips' " (qtd. Leonardo and a Memory 82). Freud surmises that this apparent "memory" is actually...