Surrealist views of reality and expresses the surrealist desire to open the vistas of the arts through the close observation of the dream state.
Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams influenced surrealism. Artistis look at Freud dream theory to create a surrealist photography.
Freud interpretations of dreams actually implied that there was a meaning to them by replacing that meaning with something that works as a link into the chain of mental arts symbolic dreams “I must affirm that dreams really have a meaning and that a scientific procedure for interpreting them is possible” Sigmund Freud
Surrealism emerged out of DADA movement of the 1st World War. The most important practise for the surrealists was the development of methods towards the liberation of imagration. This filled perfectly with Freud’s theory of interpretation of dreams.
Automatic Writing
Writing said to be produced by a spiritual, occult, or subconscious agency rather than by conscious intention of the writing
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