PEP | Article - Infantile Sources of Artistic Interests in the Neurosis of Marie Bashkirtseff: Erwin O. Christensen. Psa. Rev., XXX, 1943, pp. 277–312.

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Abstract

Christensen tries to demonstrate that Alice Hermann-Cnizer's assumption that Marie Bashkirtseff's drawing ability is based on an early hand libido is insufficiently supported by the artist's 'Journal', which mentions the importance of the hand chiefly in adolescence, not in early childhood memories.

According to Christensen, Marie Bashkirtseff's painting represents an outlet for many different instinctual drives, among which he finds sadistic and masochistic tendencies, strong narcissism, penis envy, and mother attachment.