The dialectical sentence gains strength as the realities it links grow more distant

Evidence

And insofar as dialectical thinking characteristically involves a conjunction of opposites or at least conceptually disparate phenomena, it may truly be said of the dialectical sentence what the Surrealists said about the image, namely, that its strength increases proportionately as the realities linked are distant and distinct from each other. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the Frankfurt dialectical method to Surrealist image-theory (Benjamin’s own affinity for surrealism). Bears on how Jameson positions Adorno relative to Benjamin’s montage aesthetics. — connects to: Dialectical criticism reveals rather than fabricates the bond between private and social realities. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 775; Dialectical progression proceeds by leaps between unrelated materials