Surrealist automatism

The automatism (Greek = autómatos themselves moving) is an artistic process. Above all, he is as a method of writing ( écriture automatique ) became known in Surrealism. It essentially describes the attempt to write spontaneously and to the exclusion of reason or to paint.

The Surrealists André Breton and his first Manifesto of Surrealism (1924 ) indicate that we form as " the real procedure of thought " from and in this way was a " real photograph of thought" accessible. It was all about exploring the unconscious. These thoughts advanced theory, the writer in his essay The Automatic Message (1933 ) in dealing with others (such as psychic and spiritualist ) forms of automatism.

A poetic description of automatism is: " The liberated from the brain hand moves, while the spring she leads; and performs an amazing force bewitchment the spring so that it is alive, but because the hand has lost any connection with the logic it takes, restored in this way, with the unconscious connection. "

In the field of music, the automatism is most likely in the free jazz. A good example of " automatic writing " are the works of the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, this technology found its way into his writing, especially from the 1970s.

The culture technique automatisms be scientifically examined by the same graduate program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Paderborn.