Surrealism is a movement in art and literature. It was founded in Paris in 1924 by the French poet Andre Breton. Like Dadaism, from which it arose, Surrealism uses art as a weapon against the evils and restrictions that Surrealists see in society. Unlike Dadaism, however, Surrealism tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of daily life. Surrealism, an invented word meaning super realism, derived much of its theory from the psychology of the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud.