Talk:Onirism

The article needs a lot of copyediting, but the subject is notable. (I personally did not edit anything in it at the time I am writing this.) For now, I've sourced and provided context in the article on Dumitru Țepeneag (note that Onirism is the topic of comments in many cultural and political magazines, and the investigation there only dealt with one representative of the trend). I'll therefore be removing the notability tag. Dahn 23:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Can someone please improve this article! Seriously, how could you not write about a common medical condition for 10 years! There is so much material about it in Academic Google! I'm too busy with my native language Wikipedia (portuguese) to write more than a few lines. EternamenteAprendiz (talk) 14:23, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Think it's a school of literature (a literary group), rather than a medical condition. I'll work on it today.--Wi2g (talk) 14:52, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Chicken or egg?
Looks like the medical meaning was inspired by the literary one, rather than the other way round; I can't find enough sources, though, to justify spinning off the medical definition into a separate article. Maybe it should be moved to Wiktionary?--Wi2g (talk) 16:28, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The medical term was most probably the first. But the problem is that Dumitru Țepeneag referred to the movement in his essays as "aesthetic" or "structural" onirism (isn't the form "oneirism" more common than "onirism" in English?). By the way, he did not launch a manifesto in France, as he did not want onirism to be confused with Surrealism. This is a Post-Surrealist movement, they rejected automatic writing (not embrace it) and react against Surrealist literature. The idea was to create texts that would not transcribe dreams, but use the laws of dreaming like in the paintings of certain Surrealist painters (who did not use automatic techniques), so that dream becomes an "aesthetic criteria".

--95.77.105.30 (talk) 16:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)