André Breton
André Breton was a writer associated with surrealism who, as Peter Watson describes in The Modern Mind, first met the psychoanalysis of dreams during wartime hospital service.
Who they are
The work of André Breton reaches this site through the sources listed below. On this site the name is tied to The Interpretation of Dreams.
Key papers
See the sources listed in the articles named below.
Key ideas
The Interpretation of Dreams: Sigmund Freud's book, dated 1900, which treated dreams as disguised expressions of wishes.
Sources
- Watson, P. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century.