The Great Masturbator: Conversations With Salvador Dali

Long before Andy Warhol transformed his celebrity into a viable art form, Salvador Dali wrote the book on the subject.

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Even when posing as the clown prince of psychopathology, he was never shy about blowing his own trumpet. His notorious showboating, Gibson argues, was no more than a psychological defense, a compensatory maneuver designed to conceal his profound shyness and to distract and intimidate others.

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The son of a respected notary and his pretty Barcelonan wife, Dali grew up in the small Catalan town of Figueres. Prone to various phobias such as a fear of locusts, the young Dali also developed an anal fixation that Gibson maintains was exacerbated by an incident when his father publicly announced that Salvador had shat himself.

For a child whose "fear of blushing and his shame about being ashamed were major components in the fashioning of his personality," the impact of this humiliating event was traumatic enough that Dali spent much of his early adulthood reworking it in some of his most famous paintings.

Terrified of venereal disease and beset with anxiety about being impotent and possessing a small penis, he became a compulsive onanist at the age of 16, and remained so for his entire life; at the height of his fame, he used to stage-direct "orgies" of androgynous youths while he wanked on the sidelines.

As with shame and his anal obsession, masturbation provided a unique motif in his work. How many artists would ever title a painting The Great Masturbator? Still socially ill at ease despite his early critical successes as a painter, Dali was described by one Surrealist as evincing "the timidity of a gazelle.

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