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Article: SURREALISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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ABSTRACT: Is there a relation between surrealism and parapsychology? The term parapsychology was coined in 1889 by the German psychologist Max Dessoir, and 35 years later the French poet and thinker Andre Breton gave a definition of surrealism. The first serious parapsychological experiments and studies were published at the end of the 19th century by Frederic Myers, Pierre Janet, Theodore Flournoy, and Charles Richet, at about the same time as Freud's psychoanalysis and the discovery of the unconscious. These discoveries had an important impact on surrealism.
As early as 1916 Breton, an assistant doctor in the Neuro-Psychiatric Center at Saint-Dizier, came into ...