syncretique thoughts

By dialectic the two contradictory states, the dream and reality are absorbed by a deeper realm. This is the philosophic position of surrealism. The things of the outer world though real in the sense that they have their own independent existence, lose this reality in our thought and enter into new relationships which are psychical, not physical. To the surrealist “a tomato is also a child’s balloon“ and in this relationship the word like is suppressed.
_Gauss aesthetic theories

We ask at this point, perhaps, for a description of surreality. But this shows we misunderstand. The surreal is the last dark continent of the mind; it exist but we cannot yet describe it for it has never been explored and its borders have barely been touched at times. Surrealism, the philosophic position, posits the surreal; surrealism, the method, helps to describe it.
_Gauss aesthetic theories

The duality is apparent in Breton’s definitions:

SURREALISM, N. m. Pure psychic automatism by which it is proposed to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other means, the real functioning of thought. A dictation of thinking, in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside of all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.