A Contemporary Scientific Study of André Breton’s Automatic Writing

This paper proposes a new scientific way to study the concept and technique of automatic writing in Surrealism. Based on specialists André Breton’s work experts automatism, we expose here literary, psychiatric, neurological parapsychological influences that Breton had create his own technique. We suggest have add all these influences, spiritist one, specifically, Allan Kardec, whose doctrine concepts, such as psychography, were direct impact surrealist writing, even when wanted dissociate movement from Kardec’s doctrine. Automatic has been studied many angles, specially literary art theory criticism, but also history science, philosophy, neurology, psychology psychiatry occultism, hermeticism esoterism. Nevertheless, don’t know any contemporary experiment this practice, maybe because materialist principles support traditional Neurosciences are unable writing. For reason, propose not regular Neuroscience disapprove here, post-materialist viewpoint, which agrees with values Surrealism defended