Next, Dali represents his connection to castration anxiety, as revealed in the couples in a subtle multiplication located in the images surging from the ‘lacerated body’, specifically the grasshopper, face and hand. The grasshopper represents his childhood. The shape of the face is a reference to his painting, ‘The Great Masturbator’ and is also a self-portrait. The hand represents his father. This observation shows that Dali was interested in the concepts of incestuous desire, masturbation and castration
Next, Dali represents his connection to castration anxiety, as revealed in the couples in a subtle multiplication located in the images surging from the ‘lacerated body’, specifically the grasshopper, face and hand. The grasshopper represents his childhood. The shape of the face is a reference to his painting, ‘The Great Masturbator’ and is also a self-portrait. The hand represents his father. This observation shows that Dali was interested in the concepts of incestuous desire, masturbation and castration