Surrealism's Homophobia

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
OCTOBER Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1162/octo_a_00408
C. Miller
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Abstract

The primary document of Surrealist homophobia is a transcript, published in 1928 in the magazine La Révolution surréaliste, entitled “Research on Sexuality/ Extent of Objectivity, Individual Determinations, Degree of Consciousness.” The text records the first two of twelve closed, mostly men-only meetings, held in Paris between 1928 and 1932 by members and fellow travelers of the Surrealist group, at which the participants, according to the collective ethos of Surrealist practice, discussed their sexual preferences, experiences, and beliefs. In the published sessions, the group's leader, André Breton, who convened the meetings and edited the transcript, repeatedly denounced male homosexuality. The problematics of these repudiations are the topics of this article, the intention of which is to map the historical conditions of Breton's heteronormativity and to outline the latter's function in his theory of Surrealism. To this end, the essay displaces the psychoanalytic emphasis customary in Surrealism's reception in order to locate the movement in the historical discourse of sexuality. In the French culture wars of the 1920s, Surrealism mobilized a sexual negativity against the mainstream. Yet in certain key respects, Breton's thought preserved a heterosexist logic of conjugality. Ultimately, a historical reading of Surrealism's homophobia indicates the family ties between dialectical idealism and heteronormativity.
超现实主义的憎恶
超现实主义恐同症的主要文献是1928年发表在《反革命》杂志上的一份文字记录,题为“关于性/客观性程度、个人决定、意识程度的研究”,由超现实主义团体的成员和同行于1928年至1932年在巴黎举行,参与者根据超现实主义实践的集体精神,讨论了他们的性偏好、经历和信仰。在公布的会议上,该组织领导人安德烈·布雷顿召集了会议并编辑了文字记录,他一再谴责男性同性恋。这些否定的问题是本文的主题,其目的是描绘布雷顿非规范性的历史条件,并概述后者在其超现实主义理论中的作用。为此,本文取代了超现实主义接受中习惯的精神分析强调,以将这场运动定位在性的历史话语中。在20世纪20年代的法国文化战争中,超现实主义动员了一种反对主流的性消极情绪。然而,在某些关键方面,布雷顿的思想保留了一种异性存在的夫妻关系逻辑。最终,对超现实主义恐同症的历史解读表明了辩证唯心主义和非规范性之间的家族联系。
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OCTOBER HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today"s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
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