Surrealism.
Surrealism - SUR REALISM - above and outside of reality.
Man torn asunder by rationalism, civilization, and language.
- How are we lessened by realism?
- Reality trims too much from you and your responsibilities
- The language we’ve learned cuts off part of reality from us - cuts off our creativity
- What has been taken from us by civilization
- Man is at all times at least partially discontent in civilization - in his civilization.
- “Violated in our acculturation”
Le merveilleux: the marvelous, the wonder
what is outside logic but not necessarily false - coincidence, deja vu, dreams, fantasies, etc.
Civilization and its Discontents
Diary of an Opium Eater
The notion of freedom proves the existence of constraints.
- Without something holding us back, why would we long so strongly to be free?
Violence, humor dislocate reality. Debilitating. A way to regain dominance.
Madness:
- Paranoia: reality is transformed to suit the subconscious needs
- Paranoiac criticism
- Automatic writing of patients reveals something more
TENSION.
