L’Immaculée Conception

work by Breton and Éluard

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L'Immaculée Conception is a work created by French poets André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1930. It is an exploration of different types of mental disorder, aiming to convey a verbal impression of these conditions. This work emerged from the Surrealist movement, which sought to express the real process of thought, free from reason or moral constraints, by uniting the conscious and unconscious realms of experience. Surrealism aimed to bridge the gap between dream and reality, and L'Immaculée Conception exemplifies this by delving into psychological aberrations.123

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L’Immaculée Conception (1930), written with Paul Éluard, attempted to convey a verbal impression of different types of mental disorder. Les Vases communicants (1932; “The Communicating Vessels”) and L’Amour fou (1937; “Mad Love”) explored the connection between dream and reality. Breton also wrote theoretical and critical…
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L’Immaculée Conception (1930), written with Paul Éluard, attempted to convey a verbal impression of different types of mental disorder. Les Vases communicants (1932; “The Communicating Vessels”) and L’Amour fou (1937; “Mad Love”) explored the connection between dream and reality. Breton also wrote theoretical and critical…
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