Dada & Surrealism
Surrealism: (cont.)
- context: Freudian psychology (c. 1895)
- distinguishes different levels of consciousness, including the unconscious:
- repository for traumatic repressed memories;
- source of anxiety-provoking drives socially or ethically unacceptable to the individual
- manifested in dreams
- relation to painting: “sublimation”
- energy invested in sexual impulses shifts to pursuit of socially valuable achievements