Dali's The Great Masturbator

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Venus’s penis, the woman’s bloody handkerchief. Both women are masturbating- Venus’s large hand and the woman’s finger in her vaginal opening. Both men is interacting with his female counterpart. Both men have a sea symbol- the anchor and the net.
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

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