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Unconscious thought
The automatic writing was raised by the surrealist movement in the early twentieth century. It is a “Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.” [1] This method allowed access to an uninterrupted flow of words that appear to come from the unconscious. But, how the unconscious can be constituted as language and speak properly? There would be an unconscious thought, activating a kind of theater in the brain, independent of the subject control? And how can I attribute to me this unconscious thought, if I cannot control it?[1] BRETON, Andre. Surrealist Manifesto