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Abstract:
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This article is about the life and work of Ladislav Haas, a significant figure of the first generation of Czechoslovak psychoanalysts. Haas is one of the "Three Kings of the East", direct members of the IPA recognized in Stockholm in 1963, and the only Czechoslovak admitted into the British Psychoanalytical Society. The author follows Haas's development from neurology and psychiatry to psychoanalysis and from Marxism to unavoidable disillusionment. As a left-wing psychonalayst, Haas became a target of the pro-regime doctors in the 1950's and was imprisoned for almost two years for treating the communist President Klement Gottwald. Clashes with the Nazi and the communist dictatorships resulted repeatedly in his emigration (1939-1945 and 1965-1986). This article draws from unpublished documents located in the Security Services Archive, in the National Archives in Prague and Haas's correspondence.
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