Rappresentazioni del femminile nel Gruppo Surrealista di Bucarest: metamorfosi, ibridazioni, sfiguramenti

In Dialectique de la dialectique – a theoretical text published in 1945 – Gherasim Luca and Dolfi Trost proclaim love, freed from all its constraints (social, individual, psychological, theoretical, religious and sentimental), as «the main method of knowledge and action». The Eros that transfigures and at the same time disfigures reality embodies the primordial subversive force and the main obsession of the Romanian surrealists, for whom the liberation of erotic desires always coincides with the liberation of imagination and expression. At the heart of this erotic constellation the new myth of a multiple woman emerges. This femme 100 têtes is a mental projection of the male imagination, a construction of his abysmal psychology. In this contribution I intend to outline a phenomenology of the representations of the feminine in the Bucharest Surrealist Group, focusing on the various hypostases of the surrealist woman, as they emerge in the texts of Gellu Naum, Virgil Teodorescu, Paul Păun, Gherasim Luca and Dolfi Trost.