Surrealism Midterm

Hugo Ball

Dada Manifesto

différence entre surrealistes et dadaistes

surrealists interested in creating counter-tradition instead of destroying old traditions

Tristan Tzara

words of no importance, dada means nothing, hatred for journal

Louis Aragon

suicide alphabet poem

Phillippe Souppault

“Les Fils de la guère”

Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du mal

L’Albatros

mini-manifesto of the poet maudit

Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautrémont)

Les Chans de Maldoror

Arthur Rimbaud

deregelement des sens

Andre Breton

Anthology of Black Humor, Lightning Rod, Manifeste du surréalism

Marquis de Sade

sadistic

Freud

superego, ego, id

Superego

internalized rule giver, morals

Ego

We don’t know why we do what we do, unconscious

id

arena where all our saidistic leanings lie

Thanatos

death drive

Eros

Sex drive

Nietsche

God is dead and we killed him

Interpretation of Dreams

Dreams are the place where the id can break through, dreams let out the dirty secrets

Condensation

behind every detail of a dream, you’ll find multiple figures condensed into one

Displacement

proximity/ association that is just change

metonym

figure of speech based on proximity (The white house said…)

synecdoche

when one body part is substitute for whole person (the crown)

surrealisme likes

enfance, imagination, liberté, reves, folie, merveilleux

surrealisme dislikes

logique, raison, réalisme, matérialism, lieu commun (cliché de langue), talent, génie

Enfance

l’enfance est privilégiee, la folie si on n’a pas l’enfance, l’automatisme psychique pure

Le hasard objectif

openness to chance

Aragon — Le Paysan de Paris

liminal spaces, underwater

Nadja

novel that isn’t a novel, synésthésie, qui suis-je

Un Chien Andalou

Based on Dali, Bunuel’s dreams, incohérence, condensation