Abstract
Evidence of the Surrealists' influence on the work of Jacques Lacan is not in short supply. His Ecrits and seminars of the 1940s to mid-1960s teem with direct and indirect references to the Surrealists and the case for recognising the latter's influence has been persuasively made by a number of critics. It is not our aim to again review or ague against this link. We shall instead examine several hitherto overlooked statements made by Lacan in 1970s on the subject of Surrealism in which he emphatically disavowed the existence of intellectual sympathies. Why was the Lacan of the 1970s so wary of the conjunction between psychoanalysis and Surrealism? In answering this question we shall concentrate on Lacan's objections to the principles behind two of the Surrealists' most important literary concepts: automatic writing and amour fou.
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