Abstract

GUTIERREZ-PELAEZ, Miguel  and  GONZALEZ-BELTRAN, Sergio A.. Salvador Dali and Psychoanalysis: A Relationship Revisited. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2017, n.18, pp.64-77. ISSN 2011-804X.

The relation between Surrealism and Psychoanalysis is based on the fact that both Salvador Dalí and André Breton felt strongly influenced by the new insights on the human psyche, art and creativity gained with the writings of Sigmund Freud. Through a review of literature, the influence of the psychoanalytic work on the life and work of Salvador Dalí is observed, as well as his relationship with the psychoanalytic movement. The face-to-face encounters between both individuals are reviewed through the correspondence of the time, as well as the effects that such encounters had in each of them. It was found that Dalí's relationship with psychoanalysis is both at a theoretical and personal level. Even so, in an attempt to think beyond Freud, Salvador Dalí theorizes what he called the "paranoid-critical method", which is a proposal to put paranoia at the service of creativity, an idea that was revived by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

Keywords : Sigmund Freud; Salvador Dalí; surrealism; psychoanalysis; paranoid-critical method.

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