ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book contributes to the growing body of scholarship demonstrating the centrality of fields such as occultism, magic, mediumism, and spiritualism, in the development of modern culture. The very broad scope of the gothic's hold upon surrealism has inevitably resulted in the exclusion here of many relevant topics and of important work relating to gothic and occult themes, particularly visual artwork. The occult-themed work of artists such as Leonora Carrington, Victor Brauner, Jacques Herold, Roberto Matta and others, would require more space than is available here, and there are already significant studies of that work. Considered more broadly as a form of cultural matrix onto which people can map various related fields, the gothic can be seen as providing surrealism with a coherent perspective from which to consider some of the movement's central concerns.
