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Catttt Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Literal-minded

1. Does "literal-minded" mean "textual minded and having minds based on texts"??


2. Does "its" refer to "psychoanalysis", "lexicon", or "psyche"?

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The Surrealists were more literal-minded, using psychoanalysis as a lexicon that provides access to the codes and signifiers of the psyche as long as one is versed in its narratives. As Hiller says, Surrealist painting tended to employ a ‘rebus-like homage to Freud’s equation of dream imagery with wordplay’.

  

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catttt 1. Does "literal-minded" mean "textual minded and having minds based on texts"?? No.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "literal-minded" mean "textual minded and having minds based on texts"??
  • No.
  • It means the opposite of abstract thinking, oddly enough.
  • catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "literal-minded" mean "textual minded and having minds based on texts"??

No. It means the opposite of abstract thinking, oddly enough.

catttt2. Does "its" refer to "psychoanalysis", "lexicon", or "psyche"?

psychoanalysis

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