Dada

Meaning:
  Origin:
  Dada as childlike: Dada as primal: Dada as the body (vs. Culture as above the body):
   
Dada as oedipal urge (anti-authority, anti-bourgeois, anti-commodity)
   
Critique of individualism / nationalism:
   
Dada as negation; Negation as Affirmation
  Anti-psychoanalysis, which domesticates or narrativizes the unconcious:  
Anti-psychology in narrative, characterization. home
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