Reviewing the cinema of surrealism, Flitterman-Lewis shows how the surrealists mediated between the individual and the collective, the unconscious and the social, and fantasy and reality, considering the discourse of the psyche as one among a variety of discourses. The author explores the structures of aggression used by the surrealists in their films to reorder the perceptions of the viewer and challenge established systems of meaning. Surrealist cinema thereby challenges the distinction between the world of real events and the unconscious world of desire.