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The critical literature on Surrealism insists on the thesis that the surrealist’s theories were under the influence of Freud's psychoanalysis. The purpose of this paper is to analyse, in the context of Freud's reception in France, the relationship between Breton and Freud’s main theories. Breton has developed basic ideas of Surrealism before reading Freud's books, mainly under the influence of contemporary French psychiatric thought (Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Janet). Artistic interests of Surrealist movement were far from deep interest in psychoanalysis, so the connection between Surrealism and Freud's psychoanalysis should not be given too much significance. Freud’s interest in unconscious is motivated by the therapeutic purposes, while Breton mainly saw subversive power and artistic potential in the unconscious.

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