This manuscript of an educational lecture values surrealism as a move to liberate the human spirit from conformity and hypocrisy.  The two World Wars are cited in evidence.  That world that surrealism challenged is a world totally out of balance, living on the edge of a volcano.  Cox illustrated this mindset with quotations from De Chirico. The liberating action of surrealism, with its use of automatic writing and paranoiac-critical activity, and with its tight relationship to the real, is explained by Cox through works by Duchamp, Dali, Ernst and Miro.

The manuscript The Joy of Experience of Totality appears to be an earlier version of this text.