✖ Via Dark Roasted Blend: “The Extraordinary Work of Ex-Libris Art” Nov. 20th, 2009
The “nude figure” is Oedipus. But the Greek inscription is much more relevant here ―on the ex-libris of the father of psychoanalysis― than the fact that a Oedipus is naked. The Greek inscription reads: “oV ta klein ainigmata hdei, kai kratistoV hn anhr”. It’s taken from Sophocles’ Oedipus King (vv. 1525) and it means:
The one who understood that celebrated riddle. He was the most powerful of men.
• Apr 17, 2010 link notes reblogged from libraryland [via] tagged: art book author Freud psychoanalysis