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is a bourgeois disaffection... that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection... that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

is a shifting point of magnetism around which the collective activity of the surrealist revolves.

a shifting point of magnetism around which the collective activity of the surrealist revolves.' (Richardson 2006: 3) Richardson, Michael (2006). Surrealism and Cinema)

is, as a form of moral and social liberation, a truly revolutionary force with the power to transform the world. He regarded it as a genuine historical illumination.

Benjamin embraced the legacy of Surrealism as a form of moral and social liberation, a truly revolutionary force with the power to transform the world. He regarded it as a genuine historical illumination. In his 1929 text 'Surrealism. The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia' and in The Arcades Project he hailed the revolutionary potential of Surrealism's oneiric axioms.'

is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. Andre Breton

is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. Henry Miller

is pure psychic automatism, meaning the attempt to express the actual functioning of thought, in the absence of control exercised by reason, aesthetics, or morality.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern' (surrealist manifesto).

is, in painting, little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

 can only deliver a reactionary judgment... can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment... can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

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