MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Surrealism, Neurosis, Exquisite Corpse
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Freud"s therapy: his goal was to help people who had developed problems such as neurosis and more serious illness, as a result of distorted relation between unconscious drives and their conscious situation. Eg. hysteria: women were paralyzed due to repressed sexual urges. By accessing their unconscious, he could find out what was driving their problematic behaviour. Once the patient recognized that, they were cured of it. (not shown) slide: rene magritte, the therapeutist, 1937. He used unusual juxtapositions and associations, the kind that can occur in dreams, or in free association of thoughts, writing, or in doodling. Surrealists: were interested in freud"s theories in a philosophical and social sense. That they wanted to liberate, experience, and represent the previously hidden truth of life. They didn"t want to normalize and stabilize individuals in society, but wanted to destabilize it and shake its foundations. (not shown here, in text) slide: charcot"s hysteria patient:
