{"id":17845,"date":"2026-09-07T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/?post_type=activitat&p=17845"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:14:08","slug":"passages-through-the-unconscious","status":"publish","type":"activitat","link":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/en\/education-and-activities\/activity\/passages-through-the-unconscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages Through the Unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A lecture as part of the Dal\u00ed Fellowship Programme, the international initiative of the Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed to promote research and knowledge of Dal\u00ed\u2019s work and legacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Author Unknown.\u00a0Teatre-Museu Dal\u00ed \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exploration of how Salvador Dal\u00ed transformed architecture into a space for giving form to the desires, conflicts and contradictions of psychic life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Simon Weir
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The Dal\u00ed Fellowship Programme<\/a><\/strong> of the Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/strong> has launched the first edition of its international research fellowship programme, an initiative aimed at advancing knowledge of Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s work, ideas and legacy. As part of the programme, the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum will host a lecture by Simon Weir<\/strong>, a researcher selected for this first edition. A PhD in Architecture and a specialist in the relationships between surrealism, architecture, art and philosophy, Weir will present original research into Dal\u00ed\u2019s fascination with architecture and its capacity to give form to the complexity of the unconscious. This is an exceptional opportunity to discover new perspectives on Dal\u00ed\u2019s work through the insights of a leading international researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passages Through the Unconscious \/ Passatges a trav\u00e9s de l\u2019inconscient<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if architecture could gently guide your unconscious? The lecture traces an idea that develops throughout Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s work: that art and architecture can become tools capable of accommodating, externalising and, gradually, reintegrating complex and contradictory psychic elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture begins with Dal\u00ed\u2019s fascination with Art Nouveau as an architecture capable of accommodating forbidden desires, and with the subsequent development of this idea in his paintings. These are examined in relation to D. W. Winnicott\u2019s notion of the \u201ctransitional object\u201d: an object through which one can come into contact with complex psychological elements that lie outside the self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Dal\u00ed\u2019s early ghosts and spectres gradually fade away, his intimate conflicts increasingly become focused on broader mythological, religious and cultural narratives. A fundamental turning point is Crisalida<\/em>, from 1958, a work in which Dal\u00ed transforms the psychological process of moving from anxiety towards serenity into an architectural journey. This movement, which appears deceptively simple, is accompanied by images that emerge along the route and remain ambiguous, layered and unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author unknown.\u00a0Crisalida,\u00a0<\/em>1958 \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture proposes that the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum also develops this idea, this time in a far more complex architectural form. Here, images become rooms, and rooms become sequences. The visitor wanders through an accumulation of stairways, stories, desires, memories and contradictory symbols that resist any easy synthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than creating unity by eliminating differences, the museum constructs continuity through movement and passage. It can therefore be understood as the culmination of Dal\u00ed\u2019s lifelong exploration of how architecture can make psychic complexity habitable: not by erasing contradictions or resolving paradoxes, but by allowing fragmented experiences to coexist as parts of a larger whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Octubre<\/span>2026<\/span><\/div><\/div>
Passages Through the Unconscious \/ Passatges a trav\u00e9s de l\u2019inconscient<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Dr. Simon Weir<\/span><\/div>
A les 19:15<\/span>Teatre-Museu Dal\u00ed<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>