self-suggestion

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Noun
  • French critic Laurent Jenny, in a piece translated by Thomas Trezise, contrasts Breton and Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, who, beginning in 1930, challenged some of the ideas of automatism.
    Allison C. Meier, JSTOR Daily, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Psychic automatism is a dubious technique but a splendid alibi, enabling many of the artists in the exhibition to get away with imagery that, if not outright cliché, looks a lot like it.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • All the while, Owens blurs hypnosis and seduction, speaking in bursts of two or fewer syllables that beckon the body and mind to loosen.
    Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But with hypnosis, compassion turns inward and towards your body.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Other topics of his lectures over the years that followed included animal magnetism, hypnotism, and the ether.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
  • It’s taken 200 years for hypnotism to evolve from a medical treatment to stage gag.
    Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
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