*** Author's Note

*** 1. History and Surrealism

**** The Crisis of Culture

**** Dada and Culture in Question

**** The Break from Dada

**** The Specificity of Surrealism

**** In the Shadow of the Communist Party

**** The Break with the So-Called Communist Party

**** Post-War Years

*** 2. Changing Life

**** The Refusal of Survival

**** Fragments of a Project of Human Emancipation

**** Knowledge of the Human and its Experimental Investigation

**** Freud and Automatic Writing

**** The Underworld of Dreams and Paresthaesias

*** 3. Transforming the World

**** Revolutionary Ideology

**** An Informal Organization

*** 4. Promoting the Image as Object

**** Language and its Subversion

**** The Savage Eye and the Civilization of the Image

*** 5. Converting to Mysticism

**** Reconsecration

**** An Anti-Christian Ecumenism

*** 6. Now

*** Translator's Acknowledgments