Automatism

The practice or theory of the spontaneous production of words (speech or writing), drawing, painting or other creative production, or behavior in general, without conscious self-control or self-censorship. There are two types of automatism: mediumistic automatism, in which the speech, writing or behaviour produced is purported to be communicated from ghosts, spirits or the like, channelling through a psychic or medium, and surrealist automatism. Andre Breton, the founder of surrealism, defined it as "pure psychic automatism."