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Like most surrealist practices, automatism is only secondarily a style or compositional method.
The most frequent example of self-induced automatism is intoxication arising from the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or proscribed drugs.
I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism.
He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.
You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.
Automatic writing was one activity that the surrealists housed under the rubric of psychic automatism.
Like many midcentury abstractionists, he was influenced by the Surrealist idea of automatism, which he incorporated into his early works.
I became his noble valet, reduced to even greater humiliations, and even now I am reduced to verbal automatism in thrall to his deity.
They are of equal importance, and at the same time there is no automatism and no necessary sequencing between one and the other.
Medical opinions about automatism are likely to vary considerably because of a lack of expertise and substantive relation to classification.
Important factors here are the partial immobilisation of the subject through suggested inhibition or other experiences of induced automatism.
This instruction will have to be modified where the accused has a legal burden of proof, such as for mental disorder or non-insane automatism.
Despite these developments, the decline of automatism as a Surrealist technique can be perceived as early as 1930, the date of the Second Surrealist Manifesto.
There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.
This problem highlights the difficulty in delineating the dividing line between automatism and insanity, or, as it is often termed non-insane automatism and insane automatism.
It is close to the automatism of surrealism with its rapid drawing and loose brushwork that encouraged the spilling and dripping of the liquid paint.
Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought.
Insanity, automatism, mistake and self defence operate as defences to any offence.
A successful automatism defence negatives the actus reus element of a crime.
According to Hohne, the SS was a product of accident and automatism, dominated by idealistic criminals, place-seekers and romantics.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She could limit his Brassfield state as to time, or she could keep him in a state of automatism.
But then there are traces of automatism present which are not to be found in Phinuit.
But through automatism and in trance and allied states we draw into supraliminal life some rivulet from the undercurrent stream.
The account illustrates automatic utterance as well as other forms of motor automatism, and possibly also telekinetic phenomena.
Still another kind of automatism is illustrated in somnambulism.
The dream-process, fiendishly, plays a triumph of automatism over us.
Then we arise with a feeling of the monotony and automatism of life.
In certain cases, however, the instinct loses its rigidity and automatism.
For automatism in life is a forestalling of the death process.
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