"Psychic automatism" refers to the spontaneous expression of thoughts, feelings, or ideas without conscious control or intention. It is like your mind producing thoughts or creativity without you actively deciding or planning them.
Sentences with «psychic automatism»
The method of psychic automatism, or «artful scribbling,» as Mr. Motherwell came to call it, involved a kind of free association in which the pen or brush was allowed to wander on a surface, undirected by the conscious mind. (nytimes.com)
In the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) Breton defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism by which one intends to express verbally, in writing or by other method, the real functioning of the mind.» (visual-arts-cork.com)
Although it was the surrealist artists who helped to legitimize the unconscious as a subject for Pollock, as early as 1942, he already seems to have begun using psychic automatism in a wholly different way. (visual-arts-cork.com)