Sigmund Freud (1856 –1939) was a Viennese physician and the founder of psychoanalysis (1, 2 ). His seminal The Interpretation of Dreams was published in 1899 (3 ). Psychoanalysis dominated psychology and psychiatry for much of the 20th century. What is relevant to this Science in the Arts series is that Freud’s thinking also had a major influence on the arts. In the 1920s, his concepts stimulat...

This paper proposes a new scientific way to study the concept and technique of automatic writing in Surrealism. Based on specialists André Breton’s work experts automatism, we expose here literary, psychiatric, neurological parapsychological influences that Breton had create his own technique. We suggest have add all these influences, spiritist one, specifically, Allan Kardec, whose doctrine co...