Surrealism and Freud How surrealism contributed to Freuds Ideas, and how Freuds Ideas contributed to surrealism

Surrealism can be defined in a few ways. One is that it is a belief in superior reality of certain forms. Pure psychic automatism with which one proposes to express the real process of thought, either orally or in writing, or in any other manner. Another definition is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation …showed first 75 words of 464 total…

…showed last 75 words of 464 total…and maybe even past lives. Surrealists are able to develop techniques to be able to get into their unconscious. They are able to get to those repressed feelings and express them in their art work and literature. When it comes to the unconscious, surrealists and Freud are on the same level of thought and belief. Freud, in a way, inspired the surrealist movement, because of his theories of the unconscious, and surrealists inspired Freud's theories.