The sexual revolution is just that—a revolution—and its artistic vanguard represents a qualitative, not merely quantitative, change.21 And in surrealism this change is rooted in the marriage of the Freudian notion that the unconscious is the true determinant of who we are and the Marxist idea that human liberation can be achieved only through the revolutionizing of social relations. And this requires art to transform attitudes toward sexuality and toward identity.
