ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud was not the first to discover the human unconscious, although he was its first cartographer. However convenient it may seem to assign this vast territory to psychoanalysis, it is hardly the province of a single discipline. The humanities in particular have addressed it implicitly for centuries. Within the arts, the Surrealist movement is noteworthy for its spectacular dedication to unconscious processes. Given its contemporaneity with psychoanalysis it may be fruitful to examine the role of the latter in its development and to try to appraise Surrealism from a modern psychoanalytic perspective.
