Freudian symbols in a work of art painted four centuries before Freud This is a detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, painted in the late fifteenth century by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. It is believed to represent Bosch’s conception of decadence or Hell. Notice the dreamlike (nightmarish) quality and the numerous Freudian symbols—the protruding, phallic-like objects and the womb-like enclosures.
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