The purpose of their research was to “collect all possible information concerning forms that could express the unconscious activity of the mind.”
The purpose of their research was to “collect all possible information concerning forms that could express the unconscious activity of the mind.” Sigmund Freud ’s scientific work had been deeply influential, particularly his 1899 essay The Interpretation of Dreams. The psychoanalyst Freud had legitimized the importance of dreams and the unconscious as valid revelations of human emotions and desires; analyses of the complex and repressed inner world of sexuality, desire and aggression provided a theoretical basis for much of the Surrealist artists.