Surrealist weightless imagery was motivated by the unconscious model

Evidence

Such flotation was already present in surrealism, where Dali’s late Christs hovered over the crosses they were nailed to, and Magritte’s men with bowler hats slowly descended from the skies in the form of the raindrops that determined them to wear their bowler hats and carry their umbrellas in the first place. The Interpretation of Dreams was most often appealed to for motivation in the experience of weightlessness used to inscribe all these objects somehow together; that then endowed them with the depth of the psychic model or the unconscious, in ways quite alien to the postmodern and old-fashioned in its context. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 264

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s parody-vs-pastiche task: surrealism’s depth model vs postmodern shallow pastiche is the classic contrast Jameson draws. — connects to: Surrealism aims to reconstruct the primal continuity of unconscious fantasy — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 200; Postmodern painting simulates surrealism’s forms while lacking its psychic charge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406; Surrealism offered recognition of an existing Black radicalism rather than a new theory (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Surrealism aims to reconstruct the primal continuity of unconscious fantasy — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 200; Postmodern painting simulates surrealism’s forms while lacking its psychic charge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406; Surrealism offered recognition of an existing Black radicalism rather than a new theory (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness #complicates (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1340
• Surrealism offered recognition of an existing Black radicalism rather than a new theory #complicates (0.75)