Exploring Freud’s theories on dreams and surrealism through technology

Abstract

This dissertation mainly aims to explore Freud’s views on dreams and the unconscious, and their connections with the art movement of Surrealism. This research also aims to explore artists that have used new methods and techniques to explore Surrealism through technology. This study has found that for an art to be surreal has to be created by using an automatic and random method produced through the artist’s unconscious which makes it unique and personal to the artist. The research methods that have been used helped in discovering how psychoanalysis, surrealism and technology have been connected since the beginning of the Surrealist movement. This research explored and illustrated how technology has changed the way surreal work is created, but the concept behind the art has stayed the same.