Nadja: um diálogo entre a psicanálise e o surrealismo

This paper brings out an interdisciplinary reading of Nadja, a novel by Andre Breton, written in 1928, based on the conceptions of reality as proposed by surrealism and psychoanalysis. In surrealism, through the criticism of realism, arises the concept of the surreal, with which many artists came to express themselves in artistic productions and in a particular way of life in the postwar years. In psychoanalysis, Freud was led to surpass the dichotomy between the internal and the external, as well as between the normal and the pathological, entailing a new conception of reality, further reformulated by Lacan under the concept of real. As a result, this reading brings out a claim against conformism and the overcoming of those false dichotomies, thus fostering with both psychoanalysis and surrealism, a change in the praxis of the subject.