... Andre Breton in Paris in 1924, Surrealism is a revolutionary movement, an offshoot of Dada but with a positive artistic expression. Influenced by the psychological theories of Freud and Jung, Surrealism taps into the unconscious mind as a source for its creativity. Surrealist artists were fascinated by these theories recognizing that the unconscious mind has important messages for the conscious mind. The role of the Surrealist artist is to help us see the messages that emanate from the collective unconscious. As Carl Jung says: Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming ...

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