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Surrealist automatism

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Surrealist automatism is spontaneous writing, drawing or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.

It is to be distinguished from mediumistic automatism, by which it was inspired: ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of its automatic messages.

Pure psychic automatism was how Andre Breton, surrealism's founder, defined surrealism.

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