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Krzysztof Fijalkowski

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Krzysztof is Professor of Visual Culture at Norwich University of the Arts, teaching across both BA Fine Art and MA Fine Art. He has edited various texts on both Surrealism and Dadaism including: Surrealism: Key Concepts, The Surrealism Reader and The International Encylopedia of Surrealism. Links  Support the podcast

<p>Krzysztof is Professor of Visual Culture at Norwich University of the Arts, teaching across both BA Fine Art and MA Fine Art. He has edited various texts on both Surrealism and Dadaism including: Surrealism: Key Concepts, The Surrealism Reader and The International Encylopedia of Surrealism.</p> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod?utm_source=podiant&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Hermitix&amp;utm_term=Dadaism+with+Krzysztof+Fijalkowski" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the podcast</a></li></ul>

Dadaism with Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Salvador Dalí’s proposition for Symbolically Functioning Objects (1931) made an important contribution to the establishment of objects as a major priority for surrealism. In line with the surrealist group’s research strategies, this novel category of objects is presented in the framework of a game, one in which the construction of assemblages by participants is answered by a second phase of interpretation in terms of unconscious motivations. The challenges of such interpretation, however, were by no means unfamiliar to surrealists. Just a few years earlier, issue 9-10 of the group’s journal La Révolution surréaliste (1927) had published an exclusive extract of Freud’s The Question of Lay Analysis, while at least one psychoanalyst – Jean Frois-Wittmann – was close to the group at the turn of the decade, supporting the sense that Dalí’s appropriation of psychoanalytic method is carried out in a highly informed context, even if to very different ends: symbolism, eroticism, mobility are all harnessed in such a way as to reveal an extravagant complicity between subjects, objects and the motivations crossing between them. A conversation between analysis, play and the object is at stake here, one in which none of these parameters emerge unchanged.

<p>Salvador Dalí’s proposition for Symbolically Functioning Objects (1931) made an important contribution to the establishment of objects as a major priority for surrealism. In line with the surrealist group’s research strategies, this novel category of objects is presented in the framework of a game, one in which the construction of assemblages by participants is answered by a second phase of interpretation in terms of unconscious motivations. The challenges of such interpretation, however, were by no means unfamiliar to surrealists. Just a few years earlier, issue 9-10 of the group’s journal La Révolution surréaliste (1927) had published an exclusive extract of Freud’s The Question of Lay Analysis, while at least one psychoanalyst – Jean Frois-Wittmann – was close to the group at the turn of the decade, supporting the sense that Dalí’s appropriation of psychoanalytic method is carried out in a highly informed context, even if to very different ends: symbolism, eroticism, mobility are all harnessed in such a way as to reveal an extravagant complicity between subjects, objects and the motivations crossing between them. A conversation between analysis, play and the object is at stake here, one in which none of these parameters emerge unchanged.</p>

Krzysztof Fijalkowski: The Question of Play Analysis: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and the Game of Symbolically Functioning Objects