Sunday Dalí: The Lugubrious Game (Dismal Sport). 1929.

The subject of this painting is again masturbation.  The statue with the enlarged hand suggests onanism and the figure beneath is holding a phallus, symbolizing the guilty secret. The fixation of the statue’s desire is revealed in the upward spiral of sexual images.  The head of Dalí with a grasshopper on his mouth is a recurring image in Dalí’s paintings, as we have seen it in The Great Masturbator as well.  The consequences of masturbation are evoked by the figure at the right of the picture; employing the symbols of Freudian dream analysis, a bearded father figure holds a bloody handkerchief, suggesting castration, while supporting the victim of the mutilation. The stain on the man’s shorts is a clear jab and André Breton, who despised filth.

(Most of the analysis is taken from Paul Moorhouse, Dalí (London: PRC Publishing, 1990), 38.)