SCULPTURES INVOLONTAIRES

Surrealists- bringing to light the hidden world of unconscious desires, focus on instances of psychic and social failure, where laws falter or break down.

Hysteria “Hysteria is by no means a

pathological symptom and can in every way be considered a supreme form of expression”-Breton and Aragon

a passionate rather than a pathological condition

is a mental state that is more or less irreducible & that is characterized by the subversion of the relations bet. the subject & the world of morality, w/ which it takes issue, outside any system of delirium.

Subversion- unconscious protest

HYSTERIA was characterized by both exaggerated

sexual craving and excessive aversion to sexuality

is common in women because it is rooted in the girl’s pre oedipal phase of attachment to the mother

Is a specific condition that raises general problems about the relationship bet. The sexes and between masculinity and feminity

The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, photomontage by Salvador Dali (1933)

Elements of convulsive beauty Erotique voilee(veiled erotic)- process of

representation of work in natureex: Brassai, photograph of rock crystals

Explosante-fixeex: Man ray Explosante-Fixe

Paranoia

The Papin Sisters

Salvador Dali,Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History, 1936

Objects of desire

Exhibition of Surrealist objects at Charles Ratton"s, May 1936. Right: "Aphrodisiac Dinner Jacket", 1936 

Alberto Giacometti, Boule suspendue, 1930-1931.

Marcel Duchamp, why not sneeze rrose sélavy,1921

Man Ray, study of a ‘mathematical object’ 1936

Fetihism- emphasized the idea of ‘a fixation of the sight of’ - looking at an object as it is

with the object of desire itself

Substitution- characteristic mechanism of fetihism, and metaphor was seen as its linguistics equivalent

Joan Miró. 'Poetic Object',1936.

Man Ray, untitled, 1933

Jacques-Andre Boiffard, photograph, in G. Bataille