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... liberating man's creativity, and they claimed that poetry came from the unconscious, the irrational part of man's nature. They also believed that man has been inhibited by logic and rational thought and so saw it their task to liberate man's mind and wanted to teach him how to rediscover his own unconscious and show him how to grasp the imaginative fantasies that lay hidden. The surrealist's used methods to explore their New World, the unconscious, the dream the fantastic or the marvellous. Those methods included automatic writing1. They had their own definition of science, which had nothing to do with logic, quite the contrary. All surrealists were trying automatic writing until eventually it became their gateway to the marvellous, the key to the liberation of man's imagination. Surrealists often published accounts of dreams along with automatic poems in La Rčvolution Surrčaliste2. Breton explained the revolutionary goal of surrealism as being ...