who is Lucian Freud exactly?
Sigmund Freud showed the world how the earliest experiences of childhood profoundly affect the sensibility of the adult you become. Psychotherapists would surely have a field day with Sigmund’s grandson Lucian, looking for childhood clues to the combative, flesh-obsessed, appetite-sickened painter he became. Had there been a significant moment when the child was frightened by some gross adult behaviour? Why yes, there was one thing he witnessed, something so gross, intimate and frightening it would (surely) have traumatised the most steely disposition. It was when his grandfather used to remove his false teeth and snap-snap-snap them at him. Sigmund Freud showed the world how the earliest experiences of childhood profoundly affect the sensibility of the adult you become. Psychotherapists would surely have a field day with Sigmund’s grandson Lucian, looking for childhood clues to the combative, flesh-obsessed, appetite-sickened painter he became. Had there been a significant moment when
