| Title: | L’imaginaire linguistique du surréalisme: une créativité à tout prix |
| Author: | Raphaëlle Hérout |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 13, p. 277-283 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | Surrealism arose around an uncontrollable desire to create a new relationship with the world, liberated from moral constraints and utilitarian logic. To bring about the Révolution Surréaliste and creative, uninhibited thought, this intellectual struggle is played out primarily through language: to change the one’s relationship to the world, one changes one’s way of speaking about it. To this end, surrealism takes advantage of a strong and powerful linguistic imaginary, based primarily on trust in the powers of language which becomes the main agent of cultural and social change. More precisely, it is a renewal of language, undertaken to fight against mundane and mechanical uses that convey outdated thought patterns, negate the powers of imagination, and impose an alienating logic and rationality. The linguistic imaginary of surrealism and its demands are thus a source of unbridled creativity, which banish the inherited representations transmitted by ordinary language and create new ones with a poetic language that take into account Surrealist values. This fertile vision of the imaginary closely resembles the works of Castoriadis, who defined and theorized the Imaginary Institution of Society. The concept of linguistic imaginary and Castoriadis’ theories which inspired it provide a useful framework for understanding the originality of Surrealist work and the revolution that it marked in the French cultural field during the interwar period. |
| Key words: | Surrealism, creativity, imaginary |
| Language: | French |
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