José Dalì was born in Perpignan in Catalonia at 12.45 on 17 February, the son of Salvador Dalì Domenech, an illustrious painter and his wife Elena Deluvina Diakonov (Gala). In his numerous memoirs, José has often described the difficulties of his earliest childhood, which a psychologist will lead back to "an original traumatic situation", consisting of "an almost hallucinogenic series of objective cases" essentially linked to the figure of the famous father Salvador. In the 1984 autobiography "The Other Dali", he attempts to minimize with childish bravado the peculiar relationship with "that special parent, unable to go unnoticed ... even in that hostile and cloudy February that was waiting impatiently for my birth, my father distinguished himself as always murmuring: I, in his place, in this weather, would remain safe inside! ”. And again “… having come into the world, represents in this specific case a real provocation… the fact of having arrived too soon on this earth, almost an early reincarnation of my father, can mean a strong predisposition to always anticipate the times. "
