This paper proposes a new scientific way to study the concept and technique of automatic writing in Surrealism. Based on the specialists of André Breton’s work and the experts of automatism, we expose here the literary, psychiatric, neurological and parapsychological influences that Breton had to create his own concept and writing technique. We suggest here that we have to add to all these influences, the spiritist one, specifically, that of Allan Kardec, whose doctrine and concepts, such as psychography, were a direct impact to the surrealist automatic writing, even when Breton wanted to dissociate his movement from Kardec’s doctrine. Automatic writing has been studied from many angles, specially from literary and art theory and criticism, but also from history of science, philosophy, neurology, psychology and psychiatry and even from occultism, hermeticism and esoterism. Nevertheless, we don’t know any contemporary scientific experiment on this surrealist practice, maybe because materialist principles that support traditional Neurosciences are unable to study automatic writing. For this reason, we propose to study automatic writing, not from regular Neuroscience principles that we disapprove here, but from a post-materialist Neuroscience viewpoint, which agrees with the values that Surrealism defended
ResumenEl propósito de este artículo es analizar la función que desempeña la violencia (violencia individual, violencia sistémica) en Teoría del alma china, un texto híbrido que se inserta en una tradición narrativa específica (cinematográfica, cuentística, novelística) y que responde a ella con una poética ambivalente: por un lado, una violencia politizada, contra el sistema, y por otro, una violencia "estetizada".Se intentará pues, definir la poética de la violencia que vertebra Teoría del alma china. AbstRActThe present paper aims to analyze the role violence plays (individual violence, systemic violence) in Teoría del alma china, a hybrid text that inserts into a specific narrative tradition (cinema, short-stories, novels) with an ambivalent poetics: on the one hand, a politicized violence, against the system; on the other hand, an "aestheticized" violence.Thus, the aim is to define the poetics of violence that structures Teoría del alma china. PAlAbRAs-clAve
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