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 Translation for 'automatism' from English to French
NOUN   automatism | automatisms
automatisme {m}automatism
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Translation for 'automatism' from English to French

automatism
automatisme {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • The name surautomatism suggests "going beyond" automatism, but whether surautomatism is anything but a group of methods by which surrealist automatism is practiced is controversial.
  • Gorky introduced her to automatism. She was inspired by Gorky's biomorphic abstractions and erotic forms.
  • In his defence, Stone pleaded insane automatism, non-insane automatism, lack of intent, and in the alternative, provocation.
  • He is credited with introducing the term "psychological (mental) automatism", proposing that the mechanism of mental automatism could be blamed for hallucinatory experiences.
  • An outside agent can also be a condition of automatism.

  • There are several limitations to the defence of automatism in English law.
  • "Psychic automatism in its pure state" was how André Breton defined Surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement.
  • In the case "R v Stone" (1999), the issue of crime committed by a person suffering from automatism was considered.
  • Victor Kandinsky (1849–1889), a Russian psychiatrist, was the first to describe the syndrome of psychic automatism by his own subjective personal experiences during his psychotic episode.
  • Their poetry was in prose style with elements of Dadaism, automatism, futurism and surrealism.

  • He adapted André Breton's "pure psychic automatism" technique to his own creations - "Diagrame" ("Diagrams"; 1930), "Echinox orbitor" ("Blinding Equinox"; 1931), "Viața romanțată a lui Dumnezeu" ("The Romanticized Life of God"; 1932).
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