Description

Renée Gauthier's sleeping fit transcribed by René Crevel, dated Saturday 30 September 1922, the very first series of hypnotic sleeping fits. Saturday, 30 September 30, 1922; here we are, in the very first series of hypnotic sleeping fits. This time, the subject of the experiment is Renée Gauthier, who takes up the theme of hands that appeared in Crevel’s second sleeping fit. The organs, the life of the body, appear foregrounded in these sleeping fits, through a play of repetitions that the scribe, in this case Crevel, emphasises with horizontal lines. Note-taking devises its own methods. The text thus created is marked by a play of adjectives insisting on unpleasant sensations (slimy), or associated with illness and its treatments (sulphurous water), and carrying the image of suffering – ‘sulphur’ and ‘suffer’ coming together here. The ending of the text, which is overwhelmingly shameless, completely reverses this theme, revealing a sensual pleasure of a rare intensity. 30 September 1922. 1 page in-4° folio, handwritten in blue ink and black pencil on the back of a sheet of Congrès de Paris headed paper, inserted in an identical sheet folded in two and annotated by Breton: "samedi 30 septembre - Renée" [Renée Gauthier]: "Sulphurous water… I don’t like the hands…"

Creation date	30-sept.-22
Date of publication	1922
Languages	French
Physical description	Ms - crayon et encre
Library	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris : BRT 161
Method of acquisition and collection	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris, don Aube et Oona Elléouët
Reference	4000
Keywords	Psychoanalysis, Dream, Automatic Writing
Categories	Manuscripts, Surrealists Manuscripts
Set	[Manuscripts] Sommeils
Permanent link	https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100155990