6/1/2023 0 Comments Edvard Munch by Ulf Küster![]() Munch had to watch as his father, a doctor, desperately tried to save the lives of consumptive patients, often resorting to prayer when all else had failed. At a time of rapid industrialisation and grinding urban poverty, tuberculosis was tragically common. Nine years later, his sister died of the same disease. His mother died from tuberculosis in 1868 when he was five. As the British Museum’s new exhibition of his work demonstrates, Munch returned obsessively to certain visual motifs: uncanny sunsets, zombie-like faces, threateningly sexualised female bodies.įreud might have looked to Munch’s biography for the roots of his mental anguish. ![]() He no doubt would have diagnosed the painter Edvard Munch with such an affliction. At the start of the 20th century Sigmund Freud observed the psychological phenomenon of “repetition compulsion”, the pathological desire to repeat a pattern of behaviour over and over again. ![]()
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