In the arts, an act of creation which either allows chance to play a major role or which draws on the unconscious mind through free association, states of trance, or dreams. Automatism was fundamental to Surrealism, whose practitioners experimented with automatic writing and automatic drawing, producing streams of words or doodles from the unconscious. It has been taken up other abstract painters, such as the Canadian Automatistes, a group working in Montreal in the 1940s, and the Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.
Performance of actions without awareness or conscious intent. It is seen in sleepwalking and in some (relatively rare) psychotic states.
Any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy). + prikaži više