Dear Salvador. an Apology ; Dali Was a Dodgy Surrealist Showman with an Eye for the Main Chance - Which, Kevin Jackson Now Realises, Is Precisely Where His Genius Lies
Jackson, Kevin, The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
A fish is not a bicycle. (Frankly, most fish can't even ride bicycles.) A block of granite is not a cloud. A woman's bare face is not a woman's naked body. Ah, said Doctor Freud, lighting his cigar that was just a cigar, that's where you're wrong. All these strange things may indeed be so, in the realm of the Unconscious, for the Unconscious doesn't recog-nise the principle of contradiction. The Unconscious, Freud went on to explain, is like a terrible old slapper: it simply does not know how to say "No". Andre Breton and the other pioneering Surrealists, who revered Freud (he, on the other hand, thought they were for the most part a bunch of horrid zanies), took this principle …
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Article title: Dear Salvador. an Apology ; Dali Was a Dodgy Surrealist Showman with an Eye for the Main Chance - Which, Kevin Jackson Now Realises, Is Precisely Where His Genius Lies.
Contributors: Jackson, Kevin - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England).
Publication date: March 25, 2007.
Page number: 4.
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