automatism

Simon Verdun-Jones's seminal work on insanity, automatism, and fitness to stand trial in Canada goes unmentioned, (10) as does other international work on the relation between automatism and insanity.

A causal relationship between alleged criminal behaviour and an epileptic automatism is usually characterised by the following features: (2,16,24,25)

Within five pages, these poor women have become "beingless beings": "These two beings have been rendered even more beingless by their presence, courtesy of the book's automatism, in a scene from which they are absent" (117-8).

Such a development is a radical departure from the automatisms of photography and film, promoting a careful consideration of the ontological differences between cameras and "logically, [...] a computer with a lens as an input device" (121).

We had noticed that almost all of the painters who were considered surrealist grossly defied surrealism's principal law of automatism, the one which is supposed to lead to the greatest poetic authenticity possible, to "the true function of thought." As early as 1925, Naville had written in Revolution surrealiste, no.

Hoffmann (1776-1822), the nineteenth-century French novelist Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), the late twentieth-century British writer Angela Carter (1940-1992), and the contemporary Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (1964-)--that prominently employ metaphors for mechanistic and biological automatism as vehicles for reflecting upon the nature of the imagination.

"Personally, and pragmatically, keeping open two options - referendum and parliamentary decision - is preferable to automatism," said the secretary of state on 12 September before the committee that President Nicolas Sarkozy has charged with deliberating on the modernisation of the French institutions.

Single mum Maria faced a minimum five years in jail but was cleared after medical experts said she was in a trancelike state called "insane automatism" brought on by epilepsy which has plagued her since childhood.

Appearing almost human amidst all this non-stop automatism, these long-limbed coils vaguely hint at infatuation or befuddlement.

Sutton said he was suffering from automatism - which left him physically but not mentally in control of his car - in the moments before the crash.

This is exactly the way automatism works because of the way in which the sense of what emerges from the automatic flow often does not become clear until afterwards, as with Breton's discovery of the meaning of his own prophetic automatic poem "Tournesol" only eleven years after he wrote it.

The temporary illusion that their sculptures is based on requires a necessary distance from the spectator, who needs to contemplate the (apparent) debunking of the artistic authority at the hands of the machine's automatism.