2.  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
 “Hysteriais by no means a pathological
symptom and can in every way be
considered a supreme form of
expression”-Breton and Aragon

3.  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

4. 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

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

6. Elements of convulsive beauty
 Erotique voilee(veiled erotic)- process of
representation of work in nature
ex: Brassai, photograph of rock crystals
 Explosante-fixe
ex: Man ray Explosante-Fixe

7. Salvador Dali,Suburbs
of a Paranoiac-Critical
Town: Afternoon on the
Outskirts of European
History, 1936
The Papin Sisters

8. Alberto Giacometti, Boule
suspendue, 1930-1931.
Exhibition of Surrealist objects at Charles
Ratton"s, May 1936.
Right: "Aphrodisiac Dinner Jacket", 1936

9. Marcel Duchamp, why not sneeze
rrose sélavy,1921
Man Ray, study of a
‘mathematical object’ 1936

10.  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

11. Joan Miró. 'Poetic Object',1936.
Man Ray, untitled, 1933
Jacques-Andre Boiffard, photograph, in
G. Bataille