This essay offers a deep-text reading of the post-war French film Les Enfants du Paradis Children of Paradise (1945) as a theatrical exploration of Jungian concepts related to romantic anima/animus ...projections and the Surrealist ideal of a psychosexually liberated woman. The author juxtaposes Jungian and Hillmanian interpretations of certain scenes with a Lacanian view, to show how Surrealist-influenced post-Freudian theories dovetail with ideas pioneered by Jung. The movie revolves around problems of eros (relationship) between one self-possessed "anima woman" and the four very different men who fall in love with her. Because the film was written by a member of the Surrealist movement and made during the repressive Nazi occupation of Paris, there are many layers of meaning to everything seen and heard onscreen. When the numinous female lead, Garance, articulates her need for perfect freedom, she not only symbolizes the French people resisting Nazi domination, but also how women must struggle to resist idealized male projections if they are to remain whole and free and happy.
This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both ...as a feminist critical technique and as a form of camouflage or evasion which provides space and opportunity within their prose for reflection and personal growth. Driven by a desire to cross thresholds, the investigation takes the form of a film-novel, The Cinema Beneath the Lake. The novel is generated using surrealist techniques of mimicry identified in these women's work and is further constrained in its method of development by the submission to chance. This approach pushes the writing to evolve its own surrealist practice, inevitably echoing the preoccupations of the writers under study; in particular, the occult and hermetic philosophies figuring in their prose. By adopting surrealist methods, I allow my own traumatic experiences to inform the work. The immersive nature of its exploration thus provides an opportunity to personally reflect on mimicry's importance both as a creative strategy and as providing an initiatory function within the development of self-knowledge and recovery from psychic trauma. The novel is accompanied by a sustained creative-critical reflection on the process of its production. In this way, the project aspires to stand as a demonstration of the therapeutic value of creative-critical engagement, reaching out to similar uses of automatism and surrealist reverie in the prose of these three women writers during their turbulent experiences of life in the shadow of war.
Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that
flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during
the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups,
underground ...subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed
their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues
that surrealism was more than an avant-garde art movement; it was a
living current of anti-authoritarian resistance.
Featuring perspectives from scholars across the humanities and,
distinctively, from contemporary surrealist practitioners, this
volume examines surrealism's role in postwar oppositional cultures.
It demonstrates how surrealism's committed engagement extends
beyond the parameters of an artistic style or historical period,
with chapters devoted to Afrosurrealism, Ted Joans, punk, the
Situationist International, the student protests of May '68, and
other topics. Privileging interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and
material culture approaches, contributors address surrealism's
interaction with New Left politics, protest movements, the sexual
revolution, psychedelia, and other subcultural trends around the
globe.
A revelatory work, Radical Dreams definitively shows
that the surrealist movement was synonymous with cultural and
political radicalism. It will be especially valuable to those
interested in the avant-garde, contemporary art, and radical social
movements.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume
include Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jonathan P. Eburne, David Hopkins,
Claire Howard, Michael Löwy, Alyce Mahon, Gavin Parkinson, Grégory
Pierrot, Penelope Rosemont, Ron Sakolsky, Marie Arleth Skov, Ryan
Standfest, and Sandra Zalman.
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This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a ...broad and comprehensive analysis of Belgian politics, the guiding questions throughout each of the chapters of this book are: Is Belgium a political enigma, and why? Along which axes is Belgium "exceptional" compared to other countries? And what insights does a comparative study of Belgian politics have to offer? The book therefore provides a critical assessment of how Belgian politics "stands out" internationally, both in good and bad ways – including consociationalism, federalism, democratic innovations, Euroscepticism, government formation, gender equality, among others – and which factors can explain Belgium’s exceptional position. Based on cutting-edge research findings, the book will be of wide interest to scholars and students of Belgian politics, European Politics and Comparative politics.
The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light, " ...Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth- century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris.Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor, " and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are.
García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings ...of Federico García Lorca.
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