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The random assimilation of the contingent dimension of social historical reality proceeds from a negation of the ontological specificity of the practice which can be read equally as well in high level sport activity as in the contemporary transformation of political space. Attempts to improve athletic performances are thus increasingly subject to experts whose function it is to control subjectivity which is reduced to the status of pure indétermination. In the same way, the state, in renouncing conscious responsibility for the normative dimension of sociality, is transformed into a mega-system whose duty it is to give form to random events.
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Salvador Dalí's paintings are not his only oneiric depictions. Indeed, both versions of his autobiography (The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí [1942] and the Diary of a Genius [1964]) tell of the absurd and the unusual, and are rife with references to dreams. Our study will unearth the memories and desires underlying the author's dreams, and highlight the interconnections between those dreams and the recollections he put to paper. As well, we shall explain why he cast Gala Dalí as an oneiric symbol, and investigate how the author's premonitions informed his megalomaniac and mystical fantasies.