Unrelated note, I feel like the current understanding of surrealism, as the weird dream-like atmospheres, is a better usage of the world surrealism than it used to be. Automatism, as in writing automatism, is not harmful by itself, but it becomes when you link it with the freudian concept of subconscious. I think automatism would be more valuable if we stopped claiming it sources from the subconscious, I honestly don’t think it does