Sigmund Freud: Dreams and The Surrealists

8 thoughts on “Sigmund Freud: Dreams and The Surrealists”

1. I cannot understand why a painter of genius (and an asshole, of course) like Dalì could be in the meantime a dadaist, a surrealist, an antisemite and an admirer of Freud… as George Orwell said: "One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dalí is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being. The one does not invalidate or, in a sense, affect the other."

2. @jerushalaim Orwell's analysis of Dali is spot on, but sometimes I think he deromanticises Dali to the point of sucking the character of the artist bone dry. On the despicable behaviors in question, those which Dali retold in his Secret Life autobiography are either exaggeration, fabrication, or the most desperate attempt to be as outwardly and quintessentially Freudian as possible. You can't say Dali appreciated Freud. Without Freud there is no Dali.

3. What was this clip taken from? I'd love to see the rest of it!

4. Kinda trailed off by half way through

5. he did a lot of cocaine!

6. I have the wierdest dreams. A big vagina with feet is chasing me down the street and the more I run the closer it gets. ANy ideas what this means?

7. Oppenheimer once said he was the destroyer,evil looking guy

8. what is this taken from!?

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