Dalí, who had been a great admirer of Freud for many years, purposely wished to depict here in images the psychoanalytical theories of the great Viennese professor, saying apropos these subjects that "they are kinds of allegories destined to illustrate a certain complacency, to smell the innumerable narcissistic odors emanating from each one of our drawers," and more precisely later, "The unique difference between immortal Greece and the contemporary epoch is Sigmund Freud, who discovered that the human body, which was purely neo-platonian at the time of the Greeks, is today full of secret drawers that only psychoanalysis is capable of opening." The furniture-figures of the seventeenth-century Italian mannerist Bracelli were known by Dalí and undoubtedly influenced his figures with drawers, but what was only a game and a geometric exercise in space to the first artist became to the second one, three centuries later, an allegorical representation charged with the great obsessional power of our will to know who we are.

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