The surrealist’s claim that they aren’t interested in art, only in “researching” the unconscious, is confirmed by the approach they have taken with this issue, the majority of which is composed of straightforward recountings of dreams that the group's members have had. Titled “The sphere of the dream,” the essay that opens the issue declares that the importance of dreams is that they represent (after Freud) the “royal road to the unconscious,” and that the unconscious is the true reality. A recent issue of the journal Analogon, published by the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists, helps to illustrate this. When we look at what surrealists actually think and produce, however, the differences become apparent. Evans Summaryīased on the popular definition of surrealism - that it’s a style of art that produces “fantastic or incongruous imagery” - it would be hard to distinguish irrealism from surrealism. Irrealism is not a surrealism: a consideration of Analogon #32 (The sphere of the dream) by G.S. Irreal (Re)views 3: Irrealism is not a surrealism by G.S.
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