David Lomas was until 2018 Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. From 2002 until 2007, he was co-director of the AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. His PhD thesis, The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, was published by Yale University Press (2000). Among his many publications on Surrealism, the book Simulating the Marvellous: Surrealism, Psychology, Postmodernism (2013) explores Surrealism's links to late nineteenth-century art, literature and science. Lomas has curated two major exhibitions on Surrealism and is a painter as well as an art historian.

Emil Leth Meilvang holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo, awarded for his thesis Ecstatic Life - Biology, Surrealism, and Theories of Life in Interwar Paris and Copenhagen. He was co-curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Meilvang has contributed to numerous Scandinavian and international journals and conferences, while also working as a book editor and curator. He is currently employed at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Symbolism and French experimental psychology, which was transformed into the book Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form, published in 2017. Morehead has written a number of articles on Edvard Munch and leads the international and interdisciplinary research group 'Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine'.

Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He has published numerous essays and articles, mainly on Surrealism. His books are Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting (Bloomsbury 2018), Futures of Surrealism (YUP 2015), Surrealism, Art and Modern Science (YUP 2008), The Duchamp Book (Tate Publishing 2008) and the edited collection Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics (LUP 2015). His book Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art History, 'Sensibility' and War in the 1960s is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Lars Toft-Eriksen is Senior Curator at MUNCH. He was curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Toft-Eriksen specialises in Scandinavian Surrealism and holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo. His thesis explored notions of genius and the unconscious in the early biographical reception of Edvard Munch, drawing among other perspectives on Surrealism. He has curated a number of exhibitions, ranging from Early Modernism to contemporary art.

Dr Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011) and Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia 2018); she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon 2013). She writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and teaches at the New School for Social Research.

Director's Foreword; Acknowledgements; THE SAVAGE EYE The Savage Eye + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang; The Surrealism of Edvard Munch; A Case Study in the Symbolist Genealogy of Surrealism; Lars Toft-Eriksen: OTHER REALITIES Other Realities + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: AUTOMATIC MESSAGES Automatic Messages + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: 'A Maze of Lines': Reading the Tangle in the Visual; Culture of Symbolism and Surrealism: David Lomas: FORMLESS BODIES Formless Bodies + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: The Surreal Life: Psychoanalysis and Surrealism; Jamieson Webster: REVOLUTIONARY DESIRE Revolutionary Desire + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: MARVELLOUS NATURE Marvellous Nature + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: A Natural History of August Strindberg's Surrealism; Allison Morehead: MYTHIC UNCONSCIOUS Mythic Unconscious + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang: A Surrealist Manifesto of Symbolism: André Breton; Charles Filiger and Dessins Symbolistes; Gavin Parkinson: HAUNTED IDENTITIES Haunted Identities + Plates; Lars Toft-Eriksen and Emil Leth Meilvang; Bibliography; List of Exhibited Works and Illustrations; About the Authors