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Which statement below best explains the roots/birth of surrealism?

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In the years before World War I, a Viennese physician named Sigmund Freud pioneered a new clinical treatment of mental illness and personality disorders: psychoanalysis which soon attracted the attention of a small circle of free-spirited artists living in Paris


French medical student named André Breton, who worked in a psychiatric ward and was familiar with Freud's writings, used psychoanalysis to treat shell-shocked soldiers which soon attracted the attention of a small circle of free-spirited artists living in Paris


Freud sought insight into his patients' behavior by uncovering thoughts and memories that lay hidden in what he termed the unconscious mind.


Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto, which soon attracted the attention of a small circle of free-spirited artists living in Paris.

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D.

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D

Explanation: Surrealism began with the publication if the Surrealist Manifesto.

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