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MANIFESTO
OF
SURREALISM
BY
ANDRĂ BRETON
(1924)
So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life â real life, I mean â that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his nonchalance has brought his way, or that he has earned through his own efforts, almost always through his own efforts, for he has agreed to work, at least he has not refused to try his luck (or what he calls his luck!). At this point he feels extremely modest: he knows what women he has had, what silly affairs he has been involved in; he is unimpressed by his wealth or his poverty, in this respect he is still a newborn babe and, as for the approval of his conscience, I confess that he does very nicely without it. If he still retains a certain lucidity, all he can do is turn back toward his childhood which, however his guides and mentors may have botched it, still strikes him as somehow charming. There, the absence of any known restrictions allows him the perspective of several lives lived at once; this illusion becomes firmly rooted within him; now he is only interested in the fleeting, the extreme facility of everything. Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand, the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.
But it is true that we would not dare venture so far, it is not merely a question of distance. Threat is piled upon threat, one yields, abandons a portion of the terrain to be conquered. This imagination which knows no bounds is henceforth allowed to be exercised only in strict accordance with the laws of an arbitrary utility; it is incapable of assuming this inferior role for very long and, in the vicinity of the twentieth year, generally prefers to abandon man to his lusterless fate.
Though he may later try to pull himself together on occasion, having felt that he is losing by slow degrees all reason for living, incapable as he has become of being able to rise to some exceptional situation such as love, he will hardly succeed. This is because he henceforth belongs body and soul to an imperative practical necessity which demands his constant attention. None of his gestures will be expansive, none of his ideas generous or far-reaching. In his mindâs eye, events real or imagined will be seen only as they relate to a welter of similar events, events in which he has not participated, abortive events. What am I saying: he will judge them in relationship to one of these events whose consequences are more reassuring than the others. On no account will he view them as his salvation.
Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality.
There remains madness, "the madness that one locks up," as it has aptly been described. That madness or anotherâŠ. We all know, in fact, that the insane owe their incarceration to a tiny number of legally reprehensible acts and that, were it not for these acts their freedom (or what we see as their freedom) would not be threatened. I am willing to admit that they are, to some degree, victims of their imagination, in that it induces them not to pay attention to certain rules â outside of which the species feels threatened â which we are all supposed to know and respect. But their profound indifference to the way in which we judge them, and even to the various punishments meted out to them, allows us to suppose that they derive a great deal of comfort and consolation from their imagination, that they enjoy their madness sufficiently to endure the thought that its validity does not extend beyond themselves. And, indeed, hallucinations, illusions, etc., are not a source of trifling pleasure. The best controlled sensuality partakes of it, and I know that there are many evenings when I would gladly that pretty hand which, during the last pages of Taineâs LâIntelligence, indulges in some curious misdeeds. I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivetĂ© has no peer but my own. Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen. And note how this madness has taken shape, and endured.
 It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.
The case against the realistic attitude demands to be examined, following the case against the materialistic attitude. The latter, more poetic in fact than the former, admittedly implies on the part of man a kind of monstrous pride which, admittedly, is monstrous, but not a new and more complete decay. It should above all be viewed as a welcome reaction against certain ridiculous tendencies of spiritualism. Finally, it is not incompatible with a certain nobility of thought.
By contrast, the realistic attitude, inspired by positivism, from Saint Thomas Aquinas to Anatole France, clearly seems to me to be hostile to any intellectual or moral advancement. I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. It is this attitude which today gives birth to these ridiculous books, these insulting plays. It constantly feeds on and derives strength from the newspapers and stultifies both science and art by assiduously flattering the lowest of tastes; clarity bordering on stupidity, a dogâs life. The activity of the best minds feels the effects of it; the law of the lowest common denominator finally prevails upon them as it does upon the others. An amusing result of this state of affairs, in literature for example, is the generous supply of novels. Each person adds his personal little "observation" to the whole. As a cleansing antidote to all this, M. Paul ValĂ©ry recently suggested that an anthology be compiled in which the largest possible number of opening passages from novels be offered; the resulting insanity, he predicted, would be a source of considerable edification. The most famous authors would be included. Such a though reflects great credit on Paul ValĂ©ry who, some time ago, speaking of novels, assured me that, so far as he was concerned, he would continue to refrain from writing: "The Marquise went out at five." But has he kept his word?
If the purely informative style, of which the sentence just quoted is a prime example, is virtually the rule rather than the exception in the novel form, it is because, in all fairness, the authorâs ambition is severely circumscribed. The circumstantial, needlessly specific nature of each of their notations leads me to believe that they are perpetrating a joke at my expense. I am spared not even one of the characterâs slightest vacillations: will he be fairhaired? what will his name be? will we first meet him during the summer? So many questions resolved once and for all, as chance directs; the only discretionary power left me is to close the book, which I am careful to do somewhere in the vicinity of the first page. And the descriptions! There is nothing to which their vacuity can be compared; they are nothing but so many superimposed images taken from some stock catalogue, which the author utilizes more and more whenever he chooses; he seizes the opportunity to slip me his postcards, he tries to make me agree with him about the clichĂ©s:
The small room into which the young man was shown was covered with yellow wallpaper: there were geraniums in the windows, which were covered with muslin curtains; the setting sun cast a harsh light over the entire settingâŠ. There was nothing special about the room. The furniture, of yellow wood, was all very old. A sofa with a tall back turned down, an oval table opposite the sofa, a dressing table and a mirror set against the pierglass, some chairs along the walls, two or three etchings of no value portraying some German girls with birds in their hands â such were the furnishings. (Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment)
 I am in no mood to admit that the mind is interested in occupying itself with such matters, even fleetingly. It may be argued that this school-boy description has its place, and that at this juncture of the book the author has his reasons for burdening me. Nevertheless he is wasting his time, for I refuse to go into his room. Othersâ laziness or fatigue does not interest me. I have too unstable a notion of the continuity of life to equate or compare my moments of depression or weakness with my best moments. When one ceases to feel, I am of the opinion one should keep quiet. And I would like it understood that I am not accusing or condemning lack of originality as such. I am only saying that I do not take particular note of the empty moments of my life, that it may be unworthy for any man to crystallize those which seem to him to be so. I shall, with your permission, ignore the description of that room, and many more like it.
Not so fast, there; Iâm getting into the area of psychology, a subject about which I shall be careful not to joke.
The author attacks a character and, this being settled upon, parades his hero to and fro across the world. No matter what happens, this hero, whose actions and reactions are admirably predictable, is compelled not to thwart or upset -- even though he looks as though he is -- the calculations of which he is the object. The currents of life can appear to lift him up, roll him over, cast him down, he will still belong to this readymade human type. A simple game of chess which doesn't interest me in the least -- man, whoever he may be, being for me a mediocre opponent. What I cannot bear are those wretched discussions relative to such and such a move, since winning or losing is not in question. And if the game is not worth the candle, if objective reason does a frightful job -- as indeed it does -- of serving him who calls upon it, is it not fitting and proper to avoid all contact with these categories? "Diversity is so vast that every different tone of voice, every step, cough, every wipe of the nose, every sneeze...."* (Pascal.) If in a cluster of grapes there are no two alike, why do you want me to describe this grape by the other, by all the others, why do you want me to make a palatable grape? Our brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the unknown known, classifiable. The desire for analysis wins out over the sentiments.** (BarrÚs, Proust.) The result is statements of undue length whose persuasive power is attributable solely to their strangeness and which impress the reader only by the abstract quality of their vocabulary, which moreover is ill-defined. If the general ideas that philosophy has thus far come up with as topics of discussion revealed by their very nature their definitive incursion into a broader or more general area. I would be the first to greet the news with joy. But up till now it has been nothing but idle repartee; the flashes of wit and other niceties vie in concealing from us the true thought in search of itself, instead of concentrating on obtaining successes. It seems to me that every act is its own justification, at least for the person who has been capable of committing it, that it is endowed with a radiant power which the slightest gloss is certain to diminish. Because of this gloss, it even in a sense ceases to happen. It gains nothing to be thus distinguished. Stendhal's heroes are subject to the comments and appraisals -- appraisals which are more or less successful -- made by that author, which add not one whit to their glory. Where we really find them again is at the point at which Stendahl has lost them.
 We are still living under the reign of logic: this, of course, is what I have been driving at. But in this day and age logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest. The absolute rationalism that is still in vogue allows us to consider only facts relating directly to our experience. Logical ends, on the contrary, escape us. It is pointless to add that experience itself has found itself increasingly circumscribed. It paces back and forth in a cage from which it is more and more difficult to make it emerge. It too leans for support on what is most immediately expedient, and it is protected by the sentinels of common sense. Under the pretense of civilization and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition, or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in conformance with accepted practices. It was, apparently, by pure chance that a part of our mental world which we pretended not to be concerned with any longer -- and, in my opinion by far the most important part -- has been brought back to light. For this we must give thanks to the discoveries of Sigmund Freud. On the basis of these discoveries a current of opinion is finally forming by means of which the human explorer will be able to carry his investigation much further, authorized as he will henceforth be not to confine himself solely to the most summary realities. The imagination is perhaps on the point of reasserting itself, of reclaiming its rights. If the depths of our mind contain within it strange forces capable of augmenting those on the surface, or of waging a victorious battle against them, there is every reason to seize them -- first to seize them, then, if need be, to submit them to the control of our reason. The analysts themselves have everything to gain by it. But it is worth noting that no means has been designated a priori for carrying out this undertaking, that until further notice it can be construed to be the province of poets as well as scholars, and that its success is not dependent upon the more or less capricious paths that will be followed.
 Freud very rightly brought his critical faculties to bear upon the dream. It is, in fact, inadmissible that this considerable portion of psychic activity (since, at least from man's birth until his death, thought offers no solution of continuity, the sum of the moments of the dream, from the point of view of time, and taking into consideration only the time of pure dreaming, that is the dreams of sleep, is not inferior to the sum of the moments of reality, or, to be more precisely limiting, the moments of waking) has still today been so grossly neglected. I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams. It is because man, when he ceases to sleep, is above all the plaything of his memory, and in its normal state memory takes pleasure in weakly retracing for him the circumstances of the dream, in stripping it of any real importance, and in dismissing the only determinant from the point where he thinks he has left it a few hours before: this firm hope, this concern. He is under the impression of continuing something that is worthwhile. Thus the dream finds itself reduced to a mere parenthesis, as is the night. And, like the night, dreams generally contribute little to furthering our understanding. This curious state of affairs seems to me to call for certain reflections:
1) Within the limits where they operate (or are thought to operate) dreams give every evidence of being continuous and show signs of organization. Memory alone arrogates to itself the right to excerpt from dreams, to ignore the transitions, and to depict for us rather a series of dreams than the dream itself. By the same token, at any given moment we have only a distinct notion of realities, the coordination of which is a question of will.* (Account must be taken of the depth of the dream. For the most part I retain only what I can glean from its most superficial layers. What I most enjoy contemplating about a dream is everything that sinks back below the surface in a waking state, everything I have forgotten about my activities in the course of the preceding day, dark foliage, stupid branches. In "reality," likewise, I prefer to fall.) What is worth noting is that nothing allows us to presuppose a greater dissipation of the elements of which the dream is constituted. I am sorry to have to speak about it according to a formula which in principle excludes the dream. When will we have sleeping logicians, sleeping philosophers? I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought. Perhaps my dream last night follows that of the night before, and will be continued the next night, with an exemplary strictness. It's quite possible, as the saying goes. And since it has not been proved in the slightest that, in doing so, the "reality" with which I am kept busy continues to exist in the state of dream, that it does not sink back down into the immemorial, why should I not grant to dreams what I occasionally refuse reality, that is, this value of certainty in itself which, in its own time, is not open to my repudiation? Why should I not expect from the sign of the dream more than I expect from a degree of consciousness which is daily more acute? Can't the dream also be used in solving the fundamental questions of life? Are these questions the same in one case as in the other and, in the dream, do these questions already exist? Is the dream any less restrictive or punitive than the rest? I am growing old and, more than that reality to which I believe I subject myself, it is perhaps the dream, the difference with which I treat the dream, which makes me grow old.
2) Let me come back again to the waking state. I have no choice but to consider it a phenomenon of interference. Not only does the mind display, in this state, a strange tendency to lose its bearings (as evidenced by the slips and mistakes the secrets of which are just beginning to be revealed to us), but, what is more, it does not appear that, when the mind is functioning normally, it really responds to anything but the suggestions which come to it from the depths of that dark night to which I commend it. However conditioned it may be, its balance is relative. It scarcely dares express itself and, if it does, it confines itself to verifying that such and such an idea, or such and such a woman, has made an impression on it. What impression it would be hard pressed to say, by which it reveals the degree of its subjectivity, and nothing more. This idea, this woman, disturb it, they tend to make it less severe. What they do is isolate the mind for a second from its solvent and spirit it to heaven, as the beautiful precipitate it can be, that it is. When all else fails, it then calls upon chance, a divinity even more obscure than the others to whom it ascribes all its aberrations. Who can say to me that the angle by which that idea which affects it is offered, that what it likes in the eye of that woman is not precisely what links it to its dream, binds it to those fundamental facts which, through its own fault, it has lost? And if things were different, what might it be capable of? I would like to provide it with the key to this corridor.
3) The mind of the man who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent. Kill, fly faster, love to your heart's content. And if you should die, are you not certain of reawaking among the dead? Let yourself be carried along, events will not tolerate your interference. You are nameless. The ease of everything is priceless.
What reason, I ask, a reason so much vaster than the other, makes dreams seem so natural and allows me to welcome unreservedly a welter of episodes so strange that they could confound me now as I write? And yet I can believe my eyes, my ears; this great day has arrived, this beast has spoken.
If man's awaking is harder, if it breaks the spell too abruptly, it is because he has been led to make for himself too impoverished a notion of atonement.
4) From the moment when it is subjected to a methodical examination, when, by means yet to be determined, we succeed in recording the contents of dreams in their entirety (and that presupposes a discipline of memory spanning generations; but let us nonetheless begin by noting the most salient facts), when its graph will expand with unparalleled volume and regularity, we may hope that the mysteries which really are not will give way to the great Mystery. I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak. It is in quest of this surreality that I am going, certain not to find it but too unmindful of my death not to calculate to some slight degree the joys of its possession.
A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: THE POET IS WORKING.
A great deal more could be said, but in passing I merely wanted to touch upon a subject which in itself would require a very long and much more detailed discussion; I shall come back to it. At this juncture, my intention was merely to mark a point by noting the hate of the marvelous which rages in certain men, this absurdity beneath which they try to bury it. Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
  In the realm of literature, only the marvelous is capable of fecundating works which belong to an inferior category such as the novel, and generally speaking, anything that involves storytelling. Lewis' The Monk is an admirable proof of this. It is infused throughout with the presence of the marvelous. Long before the author has freed his main characters from all temporal constraints, one feels them ready to act with an unprecedented pride. This passion for eternity with which they are constantly stirred lends an unforgettable intensity to their torments, and to mine. I mean that this book, from beginning to end, and in the purest way imaginable, exercises an exalting effect only upon that part of the mind which aspires to leave the earth and that, stripped of an insignificant part of its plot, which belongs to the period in which it was written, it constitutes a paragon of precision and innocent grandeur.* (What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.) It seems to me none better has been done, and that the character of Mathilda in particular is the most moving creation that one can credit to this figurative fashion in literature. She is less a character than a continual temptation. And if a character is not a temptation, what is he? An extreme temptation, she. In The Monk the "nothing is impossible for him who dares try" gives it its full, convincing measure. Ghosts play a logical role in the book, since the critical mind does not seize them in order to dispute them. Ambrosio's punishment is likewise treated in a legitimate manner, since it is finally accepted by the critical faculty as a natural denouement.
It may seem arbitrary on my part, when discussing the marvelous, to choose this model, from which both the Nordic literatures and Oriental literatures have borrowed time and time again, not to mention the religious literatures of every country. This is because most of the examples which these literatures could have furnished me with are tainted by puerility, for the simple reason that they are addressed to children. At an early age children are weaned on the marvelous, and later on they fail to retain a sufficient virginity of mind to thoroughly enjoy fairy tales. No matter how charming they may be, a grown man would think he were reverting to childhood by nourishing himself on fairy tales, and I am the first to admit that all such tales are not suitable for him. The fabric of adorable improbabilities must be made a trifle more subtle the older we grow, and we are still at the age of waiting for this kind of spider.... But the faculties do not change radically. Fear, the attraction of the unusual, chance, the taste for things extravagant are all devices which we can always call upon without fear of deception. There are fairy tales to be written for adults, fairy tales still almost blue.
The marvelous is not the same in every period of history: it partakes in some obscure way of a sort of general revelation only the fragments of which come down to us: they are the romantic ruins, the modern mannequin, or any other symbol capable of affecting the human sensibility for a period of time. In these areas which make us smile, there is still portrayed the incurable human restlessness, and this is why I take them into consideration and why I judge them inseparable from certain productions of genius which are, more than the others, painfully afflicted by them. They are Villon's gibbets, Racine's Greeks, Baudelaire's couches. They coincide with an eclipse of the taste I am made to endure, I whose notion of taste is the image of a big spot. Amid the bad taste of my time I strive to go further than anyone else. It would have been I, had I lived in 1820, I "the bleeding nun," I who would not have spared this cunning and banal "let us conceal" whereof the parodical Cuisin speaks, it would have been I, I who would have reveled in the enormous metaphors, as he says, all phases of the "silver disk." For today I think of a castle, half of which is not necessarily in ruins; this castle belongs to me, I picture it in a rustic setting, not far from Paris. The outbuildings are too numerous to mention, and, as for the interior, it has been frightfully restored, in such manner as to leave nothing to be desired from the viewpoint of comfort. Automobiles are parked before the door, concealed by the shade of trees. A few of my friends are living here as permanent guests: there is Louis Aragon leaving; he only has time enough to say hello; Philippe Soupault gets up with the stars, and Paul Eluard, our great Eluard, has not yet come home. There are Robert Desnos and Roger Vitrac out on the grounds poring over an ancient edict on duelling; Georges Auric, Jean Paulhan; Max Morise, who rows so well, and Benjamin Péret, busy with his equations with birds; and Joseph Delteil; and Jean Carrive; and Georges Limbour, and Georges Limbours (there is a whole hedge of Georges Limbours); and Marcel Noll; there is T. Fraenkel waving to us from his captive balloon, Georges Malkine, Antonin Artaud, Francis Gérard, Pierre Naville, J.-A. Boiffard, and after them Jacques Baron and his brother, handsome and cordial, and so many others besides, and gorgeous women, I might add. Nothing is too good for these young men, their wishes are, as to wealth, so many commands. Francis Picabia comes to pay us a call, and last week, in the hall of mirrors, we received a certain Marcel Duchamp whom we had not hitherto known. Picasso goes hunting in the neighborhood. The spirit of demoralization has elected domicile in the castle, and it is with it we have to deal every time it is a question of contact with our fellowmen, but the doors are always open, and one does not begin by "thanking" everyone, you know. Moreover, the solitude is vast, we don't often run into one another. And anyway, isn't what matters that we be the masters of ourselves, the masters of women, and of love too?
I shall be proved guilty of poetic dishonesty: everyone will go parading about saying that I live on the rue Fontaine and that he will have none of the water that flows therefrom. To be sure! But is he certain that this castle into which I cordially invite him is an image? What if this castle really existed! My guests are there to prove it does; their whim is the luminous road that leads to it. We really live by our fantasies when we give free reign to them. And how could what one might do bother the other, there, safely sheltered from the sentimental pursuit and at the trysting place of opportunities?
  Man proposes and disposes. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy. Poetry teaches him to. It bears within itself the perfect compensation for the miseries we endure. It can also be an organizer, if ever, as the result of a less intimate disappointment, we contemplate taking it seriously. The time is coming when it decrees the end of money and by itself will break the bread of heaven for the earth! There will still be gatherings on the public squares, and movements you never dared hope participate in. Farewell to absurd choices, the dreams of dark abyss, rivalries, the prolonged patience, the flight of the seasons, the artificial order of ideas, the ramp of danger, time for everything! May you only take the trouble to practice poetry. Is it not incumbent upon us, who are already living off it, to try and impose what we hold to be our case for further inquiry?
It matters not whether there is a certain disproportion between this defense and the illustration that will follow it. It was a question of going back to the sources of poetic imagination and, what is more, of remaining there. Not that I pretend to have done so. It requires a great deal of fortitude to try to set up one's abode in these distant regions where everything seems at first to be so awkward and difficult, all the more so if one wants to try to take someone there. Besides, one is never sure of really being there. If one is going to all that trouble, one might as well stop off somewhere else. Be that as it may, the fact is that the way to these regions is clearly marked, and that to attain the true goal is now merely a matter of the travelers' ability to endure.
  We are all more or less aware of the road traveled. I was careful to relate, in the course of a study of the case of Robert Desnos entitled ENTRĂE DES MĂDIUMS,* (See Les Pas perdus, published by N.R.F.) that I had been led to" concentrate my attention on the more or less partial sentences which, when one is quite alone and on the verge of falling asleep, become perceptible for the mind without its being possible to discover what provoked them." I had then just attempted the poetic adventure with the minimum of risks, that is, my aspirations were the same as they are today but I trusted in the slowness of formulation to keep me from useless contacts, contacts of which I completely disapproved. This attitude involved a modesty of thought certain vestiges of which I still retain. At the end of my life, I shall doubtless manage to speak with great effort the way people speak, to apologize for my voice and my few remaining gestures. The virtue of the spoken word (and the written word all the more so) seemed to me to derive from the faculty of foreshortening in a striking manner the exposition (since there was exposition) of a small number of facts, poetic or other, of which I made myself the substance. I had come to the conclusion that Rimbaud had not proceeded any differently. I was composing, with a concern for variety that deserved better, the final poems of Mont de piĂ©tĂ©, that is, I managed to extract from the blank lines of this book an incredible advantage. These lines were the closed eye to the operations of thought that I believed I was obliged to keep hidden from the reader. It was not deceit on my part, but my love of shocking the reader. I had the illusion of a possible complicity, which I had more and more difficulty giving up. I had begun to cherish words excessively for the space they allow around them, for their tangencies with countless other words which I did not utter. The poem BLACK FOREST derives precisely from this state of mind. It took me six months to write it, and you may take my word for it that I did not rest a single day. But this stemmed from the opinion I had of myself in those days, which was high, please don't judge me too harshly. I enjoy these stupid confessions. At that point cubist pseudo-poetry was trying to get a foothold, but it had emerged defenseless from Picasso's brain, and I was thought to be as dull as dishwater (and still am). I had a sneaking suspicion, moreover, that from the viewpoint of poetry I was off on the wrong road, but I hedged my bet as best I could, defying lyricism with salvos of definitions and formulas (the Dada phenomena were waiting in the wings, ready to come on stage) and pretending to search for an application of poetry to advertising (I went so far as to claim that the world would end, not with a good book but with a beautiful advertisement for heaven or for hell).
In those days, a man at least as boring as I, Pierre Reverdy, was writing:
The image is a pure creation of the mind.
It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.
The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be -- the greater its emotional power and poetic reality...* (Nord-Sud, March 1918)
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Chapter I
Sylvain Allemand, Le vote aujourdâhui â Bruno CautrĂšs, Lâabstention Nonna Mayer, Sociologie des comportements politiques Nombre de caractĂšres : 16.372
Dans leurs diffĂ©rents articles, Sylvain Allemand, Bruno CautrĂšs et Nonna Mayer sâintĂ©ressent au thĂšme du non-vote, câest-Ă -dire le fait pour un individu, remplissant les conditions pour pouvoir voter, de ne pas se prononcer. Ce phĂ©nomĂšne est en hausse depuis plusieurs annĂ©es « dans la plupart des dĂ©mocraties installĂ©es ». Dans lâanalyse de cette question, il est particuliĂšrement important de prendre de la distance avec ce que Jacques Lecomte appelle, dans son article sur lâouvrage La formation de lâesprit scientifique de Gaston Bachelard, la « connaissance gĂ©nĂ©rale ». Il est aisĂ© de regrouper sous lâappellation abstention Ă la fois le fait de ne pas se dĂ©placer pour aller voter, le fait de ne pas ĂȘtre inscrit comme Ă©lecteur et le fait de voter blanc ou nul, ce qui nuit à « lâĂ©mergence de concepts prĂ©cis », rendant ainsi impossible toute analyse pertinente de la question. Il est Ă©galement nĂ©cessaire de savoir si derriĂšre cette augmentation ne se cache pas non plus une Ă©volution dans la signification du non-vote. Si les gens ne votaient pas pour certaines raisons il y 30, 40, 50 ans, est-ce toujours pour ces mĂȘmes raisons quâun nombre croissant dâĂ©lecteurs nâaccorde pas leur voix Ă un parti ou Ă un candidat ou dâautres facteurs interviennent-ils ? Dans le travail qui va suivre, les textes de Sylvain Allemand et Bruno CautrĂšs et de Nonna Mayer seront analysĂ©s sĂ©parĂ©ment afin de mettre en Ă©vidence Ă la fois les conclusions quâils tirent et la mĂ©thodologie scientifique quâils mobilisent pour y arriver. Dans un second temps, on comparera les textes afin de mettre en Ă©vidence les Ă©ventuelles constations communes ainsi que les divergences.
1 Remarque prĂ©alable : Pour les textes de Sylvain Allemand et Bruno autrĂšs, jâindiquerai dans mes rĂ©fĂ©rences les numĂ©ros de page des PDF.
2 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, « Le vote aujourdâhui », Sciences humaines, n°148, 2004/4, pp. 1-4 3 CAUTRES, Bruno, « Lâabstention », Sciences humaines, n°154, 2004/11, pp. 1-4 4 MAYER, Nonna, Sociologie des comportements politiques, Paris, Armand Colin, 2010, pp. 173-197 5 Ibid., p. 173 6 LECOMTE, Jacques, « La Formation de lâesprit scientifique : Gaston Bachelard, 1938 », Sciences humaines, n°48, 1995, pp. 41-42 7 Ibid., p. 41 8 Ibidem 9 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, op cit. 10 CAUTRES, Bruno, op cit. 11 MAYER Nonna, op cit.
Sylvain Allemand, Le vote aujourdâhui â Bruno CautrĂšs, Lâabstention
Dans son article, le vote aujourdâhui, Sylvain Allemand fait une sorte dâĂ©tat de lâart synthĂ©tique sur ce thĂšme, articulĂ© autour de quatre axes : un rĂ©capitulatif historique du vote, une analyse des modes de scrutin, lâexamen des diffĂ©rentes approches dâĂ©tude des rĂ©sultats et des comportements Ă©lectoraux, lâexplication du phĂ©nomĂšne de lâabstention. Lâarticle dans sa globalitĂ© sert dâintroduction au deuxiĂšme article. De cette maniĂšre, avant dâaborder la question centrale du non-vote, on sâintĂ©resse dâabord Ă ce que câest de voter : comment ce droit Ă Ă©voluer, comment vote-t-on, comment cette question est Ă©tudiĂ©e scientifiquement ; le dernier axe abordĂ© faisant lui le lien entre les deux textes. Sylvain Allemand introduit donc son sujet par une approche historique oĂč il retrace les diffĂ©rentes Ă©volutions quâa connu le droit de vote en France : la proclamation du suffrage universel, la reconnaissance du droit de vote aux femmes, la suppression du vote plural, lâadoption du vote secret. Pour les trois derniers cas, il met en perspective les annĂ©es oĂč ces droits ont Ă©tĂ© acquis en France et dans dâautres pays, mettant ainsi en avant le retard que celle-ci a pu prendre. Dans le cadre de la thĂ©matique qui nous intĂ©resse, il est intĂ©ressant de rapprocher le fait que certaines personnes dĂ©cident de ne pas faire usage de leur droit de vote du temps et finalement de la difficultĂ© quâa pu prendre lâĂ©largissement du corps Ă©lectoral, dont le principal obstacle rĂ©sidait surtout, selon lâauteur, dans la nĂ©cessaire Ă©volution des mentalitĂ©s pour arriver à « la reconnaissance du principe dâĂ©galitĂ© entre les individus ». Ensuite, lâauteur revient sur les diffĂ©rents modes de scrutins existants : scrutin majoritaire ou proportionnel, uninominal ou plurinominal, Ă un ou deux tours, votes par listes bloquĂ©es. Se pose alors la question de savoir quel est le meilleur des systĂšmes. Lâauteur se rĂ©fĂšre alors Ă nouveau Ă lâhistoire pour mettre en exergue le fait, aussi Ă©tonnant que cela puisse paraĂźtre, que le rĂ©sultat dâune Ă©lection ne dĂ©bouche pas forcĂ©ment sur le choix du candidat ayant la prĂ©fĂ©rence de la majoritĂ© des Ă©lecteurs. Il cite, entre autres, le paradoxe de Condorcet qui consiste Ă dire que « si un Ă©lectorat prĂ©fĂšre A Ă B et B Ă C, il nâest pas sĂ»r quâil prĂ©fĂ©rera A Ă C ». Il souligne nĂ©anmoins que ce cas de figure relĂšve plutĂŽt de lâexception.
12 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, op cit. 13 CAUTRES, Bruno, op cit. 14 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, op cit. 15 CAUTRES, Bruno, op cit. 16 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, op cit., p. 1 17 Ibid., pp. 1-2 18 Ibid., p. 2 19 Ibidem 20 Ibidem
Dans un troisiĂšme temps, Sylvain Allemand aborde diffĂ©rentes approches scientifiques permettant dâanalyser les rĂ©sultats et les comportements Ă©lectoraux telles que : - la gĂ©ographie Ă©lectorale qui sâintĂ©resse aux caractĂ©ristiques sociales ou culturelles (Ăąge, classe sociale, religion, lieu de rĂ©sidence). Lâanalyse portera dĂšs lors plus sur les comportements dâĂ©lectorats que sur ceux dâĂ©lecteurs. - lâanalyse psychosociologique qui considĂšre que le principal dĂ©terminant du vote est lâaffiliation partisane de lâĂ©lecteur ; - ou encore lâapproche Ă©conomique qui voit le vote comme un calcul et dĂšs lors lâĂ©lecteur choisira le parti ou le candidat qui lui sera le plus bĂ©nĂ©fique. Il conclut son article en sâarrĂȘtant sur la problĂ©matique de lâabstention dont les caractĂ©ristiques sont analysĂ©es plus en dĂ©tail dans lâarticle de Bruno CautrĂšs. Celui-ci part du constat que lâabstention est en augmentation depuis les annĂ©es 80 en France et Ă peu prĂšs partout en Europe. En analysant les taux dâabstention Ă diffĂ©rents types dâĂ©lection (prĂ©sidentielles, lĂ©gislatives, cantonales, municipales, europĂ©ennes), il observe quâen effet la participation est en baisse mais que cette Ă©volution nâest pas constante : en fonction de lâenjeu, les Ă©lecteurs sont capables de se mobiliser. La comparaison avec les taux dâabstention dans dâautres pays europĂ©ens lui permet de confirmer cette idĂ©e : des facteurs comme « le contexte, le caractĂšre plus ou moins ouvert de la compĂ©tition Ă©lectorale, la place de tel scrutin dans un cycle Ă©lectoral » jouent sur la participation. Il identifie nĂ©anmoins une cause plus gĂ©nĂ©rale, Ă savoir le dĂ©senchantement de lâĂ©lectorat vis-Ă -vis de la capacitĂ© du politique Ă changer les choses. Tout comme Sylvain Allemand, Bruno CautrĂšs sâarrĂȘte sur diffĂ©rentes approches scientifiques permettant dâanalyser ce phĂ©nomĂšne. Il cite et explique lâapproche sociologique, lâapproche psychosociologique qui met en avant le fait que la surexposition de la politique dans les mĂ©dias aurait tendance Ă dĂ©tourner lâĂ©lecteur des urnes, lâapproche Ă©conomique qui considĂšre que si lâĂ©lecteur sâabstient, câest que dans son calcul coĂ»t/profit, voter ne lui serait pas avantageux.
21 Ibid., p. 3 22 Ibidem 23 Ibidem 24 Ibid., p. 3-4 25 CAUTRES, Bruno, op cit. 26 Ibid., p. 1-2 27 Ibid., p. 2 28 Ibidem 29 Ibidem 30 Ibid., p. 2-3 31 Ibid., p. 3
Le passage en revue de ces diffĂ©rentes approches permet dĂ©jĂ de pointer un Ă©lĂ©ment majeur, Ă savoir que lâexplication dâun tel phĂ©nomĂšne ne rĂ©side pas dans une seule variable mais dans une multitude de facteurs et ce nâest donc pas un hasard si Bruno CautrĂšs et Nonna Mayer recourent Ă lâexpression du « puzzle » et  de lâabstention. Dans sa conclusion, lâauteur pointe trois grandes tendances. Outre le fait que lâĂ©lecteur se dĂ©place de plus en plus en fonction de lâenjeu, ce qui a dĂ©jĂ Ă©tĂ© vu prĂ©cĂ©demment, il souligne quâau-delĂ de lâaugmentation de lâabstention, câest surtout le « vote rĂ©gulier » qui est en baisse. Dans sa vie, le citoyen ne connaĂźt plus une rĂ©gularitĂ© dans son comportement de vote. Ainsi, il pourra voter Ă une Ă©lection puis sâabstenir Ă la suivante pour Ă©ventuellement dĂ©cider de voter blanc ou recommencer Ă voter Ă un troisiĂšme scrutin. Il met enfin en exergue que lâabstentionniste nâest pas forcĂ©ment quelquâun de dĂ©politisĂ©. Il est plutĂŽt déçu de la politique et ne se dĂ©placerait donc pas afin dâexprimer son mĂ©contentement.
Nonna Mayer, Sociologie des comportements politiques
Tout au long de son texte, lâauteur analyse la question de la non-participation Ă©lectorale en France en mettant ses rĂ©sultats en perspective avec le cas amĂ©ricain. Dans un premier temps, elle sâattelle Ă donner une image plus prĂ©cise de cette non-participation : « il nây a pas dâun cĂŽtĂ© des votants, de lâautre des non-votants ». Ainsi, comme modalitĂ© de retrait, elle distingue la non-inscription, lâabstention et le vote blanc ou nul. Elle se base sur un grand nombre de donnĂ©es chiffrĂ©es. La difficultĂ© de disposer de statistiques fiables et de comparer des donnĂ©es de diffĂ©rents pays, dont les modes de rĂ©colte et de calcul peuvent varier, constitue une sorte de fil rouge dans cette premiĂšre partie. En ce qui concerne la non-inscription, elle constate quâelle est en lĂ©gĂšre hausse depuis les annĂ©es 80 par rapport aux chiffres relevĂ©s au dĂ©but de la Ve RĂ©publique (environ 10% Ă lâheure actuelle42 pour 6,8% en moyenne entre 1954 et 1964). Le comparatif avec les Etats-
32 Ibid., p. 3-4 33 Ibid., p. 3 34 MAYER, Nonna, op cit., p. 173 35 CAUTRES, Bruno, op cit., p. 3 36 Ibid., p.4 37 MAYER, Nonna, op cit., pp. 173-197 38 Ibid., p. 174 39 Ibidem 40 Ibid., p.177 41 Ibid., p.179 42 Ibid., p. 175 43 LANCELOT, A., « Lâabstentionnisme Ă©lectoral en France », Paris, Armand Colin, p. 26, in MAYER Nonna, op cit., p. 175
Unis permet de relativiser ces chiffres Ă©tant donnĂ© que prĂšs dâun tiers des amĂ©ricains nâeffectue pas cette dĂ©marche. Son analyse de lâabstention, phĂ©nomĂšne beaucoup plus Ă©lastique que la non-inscription, et notamment le comparatif quâelle effectue entre les pays de lâEurope des 15 permet de mettre en Ă©vidence que celle-ci tend Ă augmenter mais quâen gĂ©nĂ©ral Ÿ des Ă©lecteurs font usage de leur droit de vote. Elle met Ă©galement en exergue que les abstentionnistes ne sont pas seulement des personnes qui dĂ©cident de rester chez eux. Les « retards dans les radiations liĂ©es aux dĂ©cĂšs, aux condamnations, aux migrations, ou tout simplement aux dĂ©mĂ©nagements dâĂ©lecteurs inscrits lĂ oĂč ils nâhabitent plus » gonflent les chiffres. Câest dâautant plus criant dans les quartiers dĂ©favorisĂ©s. Nonna Mayer se rĂ©fĂšre Ă juste titre au livre de CĂ©line Braconnier et Jean-Yves Dormagen, la DĂ©mocratie de lâabstention qui Ă©tudie cette question. Sans cela, il serait aisĂ© de sâorienter vers des caractĂ©ristiques sociales pour attribuer un facteur explicatif aux taux dâabstention dans ces zones. Enfin, le vote blanc ou nul est Ă©galement en progression ces derniĂšres annĂ©es. Lâouvrage ces voix pas comme les autres met quant Ă lui en Ă©vidence que ce type de non-vote est une pratique ancienne et ayant gĂ©nĂ©ralement un sens politique. Une fois ces Ă©claircissements apportĂ©s, Nonna Mayer passe Ă lâanalyse des facteurs ayant un impact sur lâabstention en fonction de diffĂ©rents modĂšles explicatifs. Lâapproche sociologique permet de mettre en Ă©vidence que lâintĂ©gration sociale est un facteur important dans le comportement de vote : ainsi, les non-diplĂŽmĂ©s, les chĂŽmeurs, ceux qui ne bĂ©nĂ©ficient que dâun emploi temporaire, les jeunes, les « Français de fraĂźche date », les habitants des agglomĂ©rations ont plus tendance Ă passer leur tour. Bref, toutes ces catĂ©gories de personnes qui sont moins intĂ©grĂ©es dans la collectivitĂ©. Lâanalyse via une « approche des politistes » insiste plus sur « lâencadrement partisan et le contexte politique  ». LâĂ©lecteur est de plus en plus un « intermittent du vote». Ceux qui sâabstiennent dâĂ©lection en Ă©lection sont minoritaires. En fonction du type dâĂ©lection, du
44 MAYER Nonna, op cit., p. 177 45 Ibidem 46 Ibid., p. 178 47 Ibidem 48 BRACONNIER, C., DORMAGEN, J.-Y., La dĂ©mocratie de lâabstention, Paris, Gallimard, in Ibidem 49 DELOYE, Y., IHL, O., Lâacte de vote, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po. pp. 227-276, in MAYER Nonna, op cit., p. 180 50 MAYER Nonna, Op cit., pp. 180-193 51 Ibid., p. 182 52 Ibid., pp. 180-185 53 ALLEMAND, Sylvain, op cit., p. 3 54 MAYER, Nonna, Op cit., 55 CAUTRES, Bruno, Op cit., p. 3
caractĂšre serrĂ© ou non de la compĂ©tition, de la frĂ©quence de la consultation, etc., les taux de participation varieront. LâĂ©lecteur aura tendance Ă apporter sa voix lors de scrutins quâil jugera important. Dans sa conclusion, lâauteur souligne que lâabstention ou le vote blanc du fait dâindividus ayant un intĂ©rĂȘt pour la politique est en augmentation. De cela, il est possible de dĂ©duire quâil sâagit surtout dâun geste de mĂ©contentement Ă lâĂ©gard du politique mais pas dâun rejet de la politique. Ceux-ci sont tout Ă fait susceptibles dâavoir un engagement clair mais qui ne passe pas par la voie des urnes. Dans une volontĂ© de ramener ces Ă©lecteurs vers un comportement de votĂ© rĂ©gulier, elle met en avant les travaux de chercheurs dans lesquels la compĂ©tition Ă©lectorale constitue un facteur primordial. Au plus il y aura compĂ©tition, au moins les Ă©lecteurs feront lâimpasse.
56 MAYER, Nonna, Op cit., pp. 186-189 57 Ibid., p. 194-197 58 Ibid. p. 197
Lorsquâon analyse ces textes, on constate que leurs auteurs partent du mĂȘme constat de dĂ©part Ă savoir que lâabstention est en augmentation Ă peu prĂšs partout. DâoĂč leur volontĂ© de sâinterroger sur cette problĂ©matique, de savoir quelles sont les raisons sous-jacentes et de chercher dâĂ©ventuelles Ă©volutions, dâĂ©ventuelles modifications dans les motivations Ă ne pas voter. Dans leur dĂ©marche, Sylvain Allemand et Bruno CautrĂšs dâune part et Nonna Mayer dâautre part partagent de nombreux traits communs : le recours aux statistiques du vote, la comparaison avec dâautres pays, la mobilisation de diffĂ©rentes approches scientifiques. Il va de soi que lâĂ©tude dâune telle question ne peut se faire sans sâintĂ©resser aux chiffres. Cela afin notamment dâidentifier les Ă©volutions dans le temps comme la hausse de lâabstention mais aussi afin de comparer, pour une mĂȘme pĂ©riode, les diffĂ©rences concernant le non-vote en fonction du type de scrutin. Cela amĂšne les auteurs vers une des principales conclusions communes, Ă savoir la diffĂ©rence de mobilisation de lâĂ©lectorat en fonction de lâenjeu. Se rĂ©fĂ©rer Ă la situation dans dâautres pays est Ă©galement primordial. Sinon comment savoir si la problĂ©matique Ă©tudiĂ©e est une tendance gĂ©nĂ©rale ou un particularisme national. Toute lâorientation de lâanalyse peut en dĂ©pendre. Dâun cĂŽtĂ©, le chercheur sera tentĂ© dâidentifier des traits communs aux sociĂ©tĂ©s touchĂ©es par le phĂ©nomĂšne, de lâautre, il se concentrera peut-ĂȘtre plus sur dâĂ©ventuelles dysfonctionnements au sein du pays Ă©tudiĂ©. Une erreur de diagnostic Ă ce moment-lĂ impliquera un biais qui rendra caduque toute lâanalyse. Par ailleurs, ce type de comparatif permet soit de relativiser lâampleur du problĂšme, soit, Ă contrario, de rendre compte de son caractĂšre exceptionnel. Dans le texte de Nonna Mayer, on compare les chiffres relatifs Ă la non-inscription en France et aux Etats-Unis : environ 10% dâune part et 30% dâautre part. Alors, certes, la non-inscription augmente en France mais cela reste modĂ©rĂ© par rapport aux Etats-Unis. Enfin, le recours Ă diffĂ©rentes approches scientifiques, telles que lâapproche sociologique, lâapproche des politistes, lâapproche Ă©conomique, met en Ă©vidence les diffĂ©rents facteurs explicatifs. Ceci permet de souligner le fait que lâabstention nâa pas une explication mais quâun certain nombre de variables influent sur la dĂ©cision de lâĂ©lecteur de voter ou pas. La tentation pourrait ĂȘtre grande de trouver une unique cause, ce qui rendrait Ă©ventuellement plus aisĂ© la mise en oeuvre de solutions. La principal diffĂ©rence identifiĂ©e entre les deux textes se trouve dans la volontĂ© de Nonna Mayer de distinguer directement la diffĂ©rence entre la non-inscription, lâabstention et le vote
59 MAYER Nonna, op cit., p. 177
blanc ou nul. Ceci marque clairement sa volontĂ© de prendre de la distance avec lâusage un peu trop simpliste du terme abstention pour parler de plusieurs comportements ayant Ă©ventuellement des causes distinctes. Ceci Ă©vite finalement de comparer des pommes et des poires. Une autre diffĂ©rence se trouve dans sa volontĂ© Ă mettre en exergue certains leviers qui permettraient dâagir sur cette tendance Ă moins de participation : jouer sur le caractĂšre plus compĂ©titif des Ă©lections et/ou abaisser la majoritĂ© Ă©lectorale. Alors que Sylvain Allemand et BenoĂźt CautrĂšs se limitent, ce qui nâest dĂ©jĂ pas si mal, Ă identifier les facteurs explicatifs. En conclusion, lâanalyse de ces textes ont permis de mettre en avant que la non-participation a augmentĂ© et que sa signification ne se limite pas Ă classer les non-votants comme des individus ayant un dĂ©sintĂ©rĂȘt du politique. Certes, une part de ceux-ci se trouve dans une situation de dĂ©ficit dâintĂ©gration sociale mais il existe Ă©galement des personnes remplissant en quelque sorte les conditions sociologiques du votant type (diplĂŽmĂ©, stabilitĂ© professionnelle, politisĂ©, etc.) qui ne se prononcent pas ou du moins pas Ă chaque scrutin. Cette non-participation nâest en effet pas une constante. La majoritĂ© dâentre eux sont bien souvent des « intermittents du vote ». De plus en plus, la dĂ©cision de voter ou pas se fait en fonction de lâenjeu. Enfin, la non-participation exprime aussi un mĂ©contentement par rapport au politique mettant ainsi une certaine distance avec les modĂšles explicatifs nâattribuant le fait de rester Ă lâĂ©cart des Ă©lections quâĂ des facteurs sociaux. Ces textes peuvent ĂȘtre clairement considĂ©rĂ©s comme scientifiques via la volontĂ© Ă©vidente des auteurs Ă chercher les significations de lâaugmentation de la non-participation Ă©lectorale, par la neutralitĂ© quâils expriment dans lâexpression des diffĂ©rentes idĂ©es et par la mobilisation de matĂ©riaux divers et variĂ©s pour arriver Ă leurs conclusions: Ă©lĂ©ments historiques, recours Ă la littĂ©rature scientifique, usage de nombreuses statistiques, analyse selon diverses approches scientifiques.
60 Ibid., p. 173 61 CAUTRES, Bruno, Op cit., p. 3
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