Automatic writing

The French term écriture automatique (German: automatic writing, automatic text ) refers to a method of writing, in pictures, feelings and expressions (if possible ) should be uncensored and reproduced without the intervention of critical self. Dispensing with deliberateness and sense control both sets, set pieces, strings of words, as well as single words can be written. What else is considered faulty in terms of spelling, grammar or punctuation, may be desirable in these conditions and purposeful. Important thing is the authenticity of the incident.

The Surrealists promoted this literary form of the free association as a new form of poetry and experimental literature.

Origin

The origins of the automatic writing go back to psychology. The term was coined in 1889 in the context of therapeutic trials by the French psychotherapist Pierre Janet, where the patient was stopped half-asleep, in a trance or hypnosis for writing to bring the unconscious into consciousness. Janet led this writing process as a psychological treatment method. By unconsciously controlled flow of writing, the patient receives new ideas or new combinations of ideas or associations, and so unconscious impressions and experiences can be processed. The method is also used to facilitate the write -off or reduce to writer's block.

Surrealism

The method of automatic writing of the Surrealist group led by André Breton in Paris in the 1920s was adapted in the literature. The automatic low- Written, which a well-planned structure as opposed to as a subsequently censoring correction, was not used here to cure diseases, to create psychograms or to overcome personality splits, but postulated the unconscious, dreamlike and spontaneous elements of human intuition as a basis for new kind of creativity.