CONTENTS: Introduction: Sublimation/Desublimation: A Question of Definition – Critiques of Surrealism: Idealist, Sublimatory and Repressive – The Breton-Bataille Polemic Revisited – Breton’s Non-Repressive View of Sublimation and Art – Surrealism’s Inner Alchemy: Perturbing the Senses, Awakening the Spirit – The Surrealist Cult of Love: Extolling the Forbidden Fruit.