Dalí's enthusiasm for Don Quixote responds to his admiration for the ideas that the human being begets from the fantasy and take as true. There was nothing more sincere, and therefore, reliable, than a thought that does not fit the concerns or the sense of the consequence. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis and great reference of surrealist painters, created a system to identify the traumatic memories of the patient, inviting him first to tell the first thing that occurred to him. These first words without plot thread were effluvia of the experiences that the subject kept in an imperceptible region of the mind, the subconscious, which emerges more clearly, although disguised, in contexts of dream and hypnosis.
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