1. BEYOND THE VISIBLEde Beaufort<br />The Unconscious Mind<br />The part of the mind which gives rise to a collection of mental phenomena that manifest in a person's mind but which the person is not aware of at the time of their occurrence. It is the source of night dreams, memories, and desire.<br />Eros<br />Related to the Freudian concept of Libido, Eros is the life instinct innate in all humans. It is the desire to create life, reproduce, and favors productivity and construction.<br />Thanatos<br />According to Sigmund Freud Thanatos is the death drive allegedly compels humans to engage in risky and self-destructive acts that could lead to their own death. Behaviors such as thrill seeking, aggression, and risk taking are viewed as actions which stem from this Thanatos instinct. <br />Romanticism<br />Literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in Europe in the 18th century and lasted roughly until the mid-19th century. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.<br />Symbolism<br />A loosely organized movement that flourished in the late 1800’s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative functions and turned to the mystical and occult in an attempt to evoke subjective states of mind by visual means. <br />Surrealism <br />Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; Surrealism developed in reaction against the quot;
rationalismquot;
that had led to World War I. The movement was founded in 1924 by André Breton as a means of joining dream and fantasy to everyday reality to form quot;
an absolute reality, a surreality.quot;
Drawing on the theories of Sigmund Freud, he concluded that the unconscious was the wellspring of the imagination. <br /> <br />Science Fiction <br />Science fiction, a popular modern branch of prose fiction that explores the probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human (or intelligent non‐human) existence. This transformation need not be brought about by a technological invention, but may involve some mutation of known biological or physical reality, e.g. time travel, extraterrestrial invasion, ecological catastrophe. Science fiction is a form of literary fantasy or romance that often draws upon earlier kinds of utopian and apocalyptic writing.<br />Psychedelic<br />Psychedelic states are an array of experiences elicited by various techniques, including sensory stimulation, sensory deprivation as well as by psychedelic substances. Such experiences include hallucinations, changes of perception, synesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.<br />
