i have began looking at the 4 schools of surrealist thought, the subjective, the imagistic, the conceptual and the revelatory and comparing and contrasting these with the 4 types of dream logic - condensation, visualisation, displacement and symbolism.

I will begin by laying these terms and the meaning down so that we may both grasp better understanding of them

Freud's Dream Logic
Condensation - Where one dream object stands for several associations and/or ideas

Visualisation - a thought is transformed into the visual image

Displacement - a dream objects emotional significance to the dreamer is transposed onto another object so as to not raise the suspicions of the dreamer

Symbolism - a symbol replaces a person, idea or action

Freud also hypothesised that "secondary elaboration" could be added to these as this is the act of the dreamer stringing the events of the dream into one story and trying to decipher a narrative from this. this  i don't believe to be part of dream interpretation or logic as it not key to deciphering the latent content of the dream it is merely a device used by the dreamer to form cohesion out of their own madness & a dream is not a continuos narrative or thought pattern it is a whole series of thoughts, ideas or desires being connected by the dreamer as interpreter and there only way of possibly being linked together is the dreamer and the knowledge and experiences therein. we can only hope to learn more about the dreamers life experiences as to gain insight to his night experiences.


Surrealist Schools of Thought (i will be using the creation of art to explain these terms)

The Conceptual - this is where the ideas or concepts behind the piece take precedence over the aesthetic nature of the work

The Imagistic - the conveying of meaning and ideas through precise images

The Revelatory - revealing something that was hitherto unknown

The Subjective - something that acts onto the viewer and can be interpreted in a multiude of ways