Comique primitif et inconscient corporel

Abstract

This article explores the body expression of the unconscious, from the 1880s to the 1920s. Associated with a form of primitivity, this ‘corporal unconscious’ is in fact a style, and a style itself strongly identified with a technical innovation: first of all, the medical technique of hypnosis, then the aesthetic technique of film projection, conceived or assumed as a process of artialization.

Keywords

• Café-concert
• Arts incohérents
• Hysteria
• Hypnosis
• Decadentism
• Dadaism