Jean Audard
Jean Audard (20 March 1913 – 19 March 1998) was a French poet and critic. Life. In the late 1920s, he cofounded a poetry magazine "Rationale" (1928-1930) with other young poets, as well as founding "Zarathoustra", a more philosophical journal. Around this time he became a correspondent of Oscar Milosz. In the 1930s he was a contributor to "Cahiers du Sud", and joined others associated with Surrealism in anti-Fascist efforts. An essay by Audard on the extent to which psychoanalysis was materialist drew heavy criticism from Georges Politzer for the 'bootlegging Bergsonianism' of its 'Freudo-Marxism'. He  wrote for the wartime (1939-1946) poetry magazine "Messages". After the death of Oscar Milosc he became Director of the Friends of Milosz, established in 1966. He had three children. Elsa is a psychoanalyst in Paris. Frédéric, the youngest, created his own communication agency in the East of France. And his second daughter is Catherine Audard, a philosopher and translator of John Rawls.