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Bohuslav Brouk

Bohuslav Brouk (1912, Prague - 1978, London) was a psychoanalyst, writer, poet, publicist, philosopher, aesthetician, sociologist and biologist, one of the most prominent personalities of the Czech interwar avant-garde. Since 1948 he lived in exile. He was one of the first promoters of psychoanalysis and a critical interpreter of Sigmund Freud's work in Czechoslovakia. His work concerns psychoanalysis (Autosexualism and Psycherotism, 1935), language and the way of expression (Linguistic Comics, 1941), and the relationship of man to things (the so-called chrematology or science of things, People and Things, 1947).

He was the younger son of Jaroslav Brouk, co-founder of the firm Brouk a Babka.

This enfant terrible of the Czech avant-garde and bohemia of the 1930s and 1940s became a co-founder of the Surrealist Group in the Czechoslovakia in 1934, whose leaflet informing about its establishment he published in his own edition. Brouk was not a member of the Surrealist Group just for form's sake; he actively participated in the contemporary debate on art and politics. He had already published a text on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism in the Nine-Silesian magazine ReD (9/1930), which initially united the artists in opinion. In a dispute within the group, in 1938, he sided with Karel Teige against Vítězslav Nezval. He dealt mainly with psychoanalysis, sexology, the problem of suicide and a number of other topics. During the Second World War, he worked as an artistic advisor to the Bílá labut' department store, which was built and owned by a family company.

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