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Handwritten text by André Breton inserted in the volume The Interpretation of Dreams (Published by Felix Alcan, 31 December 1926). It largely provides the basis for the writing of the first part of Vases communicants , published in 1932.

This notebook attests the writer's strong interest in reading Freud's classic Interpretation of Dreams; one passage about repression is even marked ‘Very good’ - there is a certain piquancy in the fact that it is written on paper from a school notebook. Breton had read Freud’s On Dreams in 1925. His notes on The Interpretation of Dreams can therefore be situated sometime between 1927 and 1931, when he was preparing Les Vases communicants, of which these notes constitute some of the raw material used in its first part. [Atelier André Breton website, 2003] Hand-written manuscript, sd [1927 - 1931].

Hand-written manuscript, sd [1927 - 1931].
- In a school notebook known as ‘La Girafe’. 19 pages in-8°, manuscript titled ‘La Science des rêves’ with a few erasures and corrections where Breton summarizes numerous passages from Freud's book, some of which are quoted in Les Vases communicants. (Oeuvres complètes , Volume II, Les Vases communicants, Notes page 1393).
(The first cover of the notebook is cracked, without affecting the notes made by Breton on the back).
This notebook was inserted by André Breton at the back of the volume of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, Alcan edition of 1926, translated by Meyerson. [sale catalogue, 2003]


*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.

Bibliography

- Ce texte d'André Breton a été publié en fac-similé dans Folie et psychanalyse dans l'expérience surréaliste, sous la direction de Fabienne Hulak, préface d'Alain Jouffroy, Z'Editions, Nice, 1992.
- André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Les Vases communicants, ŒŒuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, voir les notes, pages 1378-1395.

Creation date1931
Bibliographical material

—This text by André Breton was published in facsimile in Folie et psychanalyse dans l'expérience surréaliste , edited by Fabienne Hulak, with a preface by Alain Jouffroy, Z'Editions, Nice, 1992.

—André Breton Les Vases communicants, Œuvres complètes, volume II (Edited by Marguerite Bonnet with the contributions from Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert and José Pierre), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, see the notes, pages 1378-1395.

—Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Essay by Sigmund Freud published in 1926 by Félix Alcan in Paris.

Date of publication 1931
LanguagesFrench
Physical descriptionMs - encre noire
Library

Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris : BRT 73

Breton Auction, 2003Lot 2180
Keywords, ,
CategoriesAndre Breton's Manuscripts
Set[AB's Manuscripts] L'Amour fou, Arcane 17, Les Vases communicants,
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100020310

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La Science des rêves

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Sigmund Freud

Essai de Sigmund Freud publié en 1926 par Félix Alcan à Paris.

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