Markle finds that the child in the Holy Family of da Vinci is releasing rage on the lamb in the picture. The lamb is tense and unbalanced because of the child's grip on its neck. Perhaps the picture portrays da Vinci as the child expressing his rage at his abandonment by his mother at age five. Freud's suggestion that this painting shows a blissful scene underemphasizes his observation that the lamb was 'maltreated'.