Surrealism aims to reconstruct the primal continuity of unconscious fantasy
Evidence
For Breton, like Freud, conceives of the psyche as an endless, uninterrupted fantasy that continues beneath the surface of humdrum waking life, a kind of endless melody or “inexhaustible murmur,” which at the verbal level is tapped by the technique of automatic writing. It is precisely the fact that the novel reproduces the discontinuity of waking life which makes it worthless from the point of view of Surrealism, the latter aiming at nothing less than the reconstruction of the primal continuity of the unconscious itself. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 200
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Surrealism rejects novelistic description as a surrender to reified perception — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 199; Surrealist weightless imagery was motivated by the unconscious model — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 264; Surrealist layering of fragmented images persists across decades as a continuity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 411 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Surrealism rejects novelistic description as a surrender to reified perception — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 199; Surrealist weightless imagery was motivated by the unconscious model — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 264; Surrealist layering of fragmented images persists across decades as a continuity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 411 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Surrealist weightless imagery was motivated by the unconscious model
#expands(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 264 - Surrealist layering of fragmented images persists across decades as a continuity
#contradicts(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 411 - Surrealism is a revolutionary movement resolving the contradiction between daily life and dreams.
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