Dalà painted Burning Giraffe before his exile in the United States, which was from 1940 to 1948. Although Dalà declared himself apoliticalâ"I am DalÃ, and only that"âthis painting shows his personal struggle with the battle in his home country. Characteristic are the opened drawers in the blue female figure, which Dalà on a later date described as "Femme-coccyx" This phenomenon can be traced back to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical method, much admired by DalÃ. He regarded him as an enormous step forward for civilization, as shown in the following quote: "The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis"
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