choice of models. The mistake lies in thinking that the model can only be taken from the exterior world, or even simply that it can be taken at all (Chipp 405).
Breton highlighted the important influences of poetry and psychoanalytic techniques in art. The most important Freudian theory was the theory of the unconscious. Breton had trained as a doctor and had experienced of Freud's associational techniques for the treatment of shell-shock victims in World War I. He determined that the investigation of the unconscious should remain open to poets who could use relational methods to seek what he called the "marvelous." He wrote,
Once and for all: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful; in
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