An anti-rational movement of imaginative liberation in European art and literature in the 1920s and 1930s, launched by André Breton. This movement seeks to break down the boundaries between rationality and irrationality, exploring the resources and revolutionary energies of dreams, hallucinations, and sexual desire. Influenced both by the symbolists and by Freud’s theories of the unconscious, this movement experimented with automatic writing and with the free association of random images brought together in surprising juxtaposition.
(Chris Baldick. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 2001. Adaptado.)

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