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Psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salome may seem to be a
figure remote from us, one belonging to a pre-1914 Europe, but in
many ways, she is our contemporary. She travelled in a highly
romantic world as socialite, sociologist, and author. She was part
of Georg Simmel's salon, the most exclusive in Berlin, frequented
by elusive poet Stefan Georg, dramatist Paul Ernst, social theorist
and polymath Max Weber, and Georg Lukacs, among others.
Salome's unique contribution to the erotic was that she argued
sexual difference ran deeper than economics and equality--the
politics of Marx and the ideals of the French Revolution. For
Salome, to think about women and their erotic nature, you must
start with their biological and psychological difference, not their
economic situation.
Salome was an outstanding theorist. Her books on Nietzsche and
on Rilke are major studies. The field of psychoanalysis would not
have developed in the way it did without Lou Andreas-Salome. We
cannot understand Freud's "rationalism" or his anti-religious
sensibility without Salome's writings. This new English translation
is an essential text of psychoanalysis, one that shaped the very
conception of the field.
Psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salome may seem to be a
figure remote from us, one belonging to a pre-1914 Europe, but in
many ways, she is our contemporary. She travelled in a highly
romantic world as socialite, sociologist, and author. She was part
of Georg Simmel's salon, the most exclusive in Berlin, frequented
by elusive poet Stefan Georg, dramatist Paul Ernst, social theorist
and polymath Max Weber, and Georg Lukacs, among others.
Salome's unique contribution to the erotic was that she argued
sexual difference ran deeper than economics and equality--the
politics of Marx and the ideals of the French Revolution. For
Salome, to think about women and their erotic nature, you must
start with their biological and psychological difference, not their
economic situation.
Salome was an outstanding theorist. Her books on Nietzsche and
on Rilke are major studies. The field of psychoanalysis would not
have developed in the way it did without Lou Andreas-Salome. We
cannot understand Freud's "rationalism" or his anti-religious
sensibility without Salome's writings. This new English translation
is an essential text of psychoanalysis, one that shaped the very
conception of the field.
As a psychoanalyst and author, Lou Andreas-Salome traverses the
mystery of sexuality in much of her work. This book, comprised of
two texts originally written for adolescents, uniquely explores
sexual education and the collision of sexuality and religion across
the lifespan. The first piece, "Three Letters to a Young Boy"
(1917), is a psychoanalytic fairy tale. The letters offer an
interesting version of the evolution of sexual knowledge from
childhood through adolescence. The second piece, "The Devil &
His Grandmother" (1922), merges sexuality with religion,
encapsulating three ages of woman-child, to a lost soul and the
Devil's bride, to the Devil's Grandmother. Written in charmingly
convoluted dialogue, this work has a cinematic, fanciful feel. Both
pieces dispense with academic formality and point to a relaxed new
phase in Salome's writing life. Interestingly, this tone can also
be detected in her blossoming correspondence with Sigmund Freud,
which contrasts starkly with her sombre letters to Rainer Maria
Rilke. It is with the spirit of free thinking demonstrated in these
two selections, perhaps informed by Salome's experimentation with
free association, that the reader is transported to a new theatre
of Salome's imagination.
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++++ Der Egoismus Lou Andreas-Salome Arthur Dix Verlag von Freund
& Wittig, 1899 Egoismus
Edited by Ernst Pfeiffer and Translated by William and Elaine Robson-Scott
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) was a writer and disciple of Freud who became a practicing analyst. For over two decades she and Freud kept up an intensive correspondence. Freud found in her a perceptive appreciater and amplifier of his ideas, and Andreas found him a sympathetic critic of her own. Their exchanges on theoretical topics and clinical experiences, their admiring friendship, and the glimpses of their personalities make this collection invaluable for readers interested in the history of psychoanalysis. Lou Andreas-Salomé wrote her first letter to Freud in 1912, asking his permission to come to Vienna for psychoanalytical training. This extraordinary Russian woman, whose intelligence and beauty captivated Nietzsche and Rilke, now capitvated Freud, while she discovered in Freud's psychoanalysis the true fulfillment of her life. Freud's letters contain revealing commentaries on his working methods, his concept of narcissism, and his interpretation of Moses, and they treat the themes that preoccupied him in his old age: death, religion, war. Andreas's topics include her relationship to Rilke, and her reaction to his death, and the psychology of the artist.
He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth
century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siecle thinkers and artists.
In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA
translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou
Andreas-Salome, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his
senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting
boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protege, and as deep personal
and literary allies."
The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of
ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) wrote between 1895
and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of
Andreas-Salome's significance as a thinker and writer, above all
with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the
principles of women's emancipation. Born in St. Petersburg to a
German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-Salome has always been a
figure of interest because of her close relationships to
influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria
Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Only since the mid-1980s, however, have
her prose fiction and theoretical writings been reconsidered as
important documents of emerging ideas and debates in
twentieth-century feminism. The ten stories of The Human Family
drive home her critical perspective on feminine stereotypes. They
depict a wide variety of young women as they relate to men
representing different degrees of enlightenment and tolerance,
struggling to express a complete and independent feminine identity
in the face of the confining but often seductive roles that
convention and tradition impose on female potential. The Human
Family provides a subtle and nuanced perspective on European
feminist writing from the turn of the last century by a woman
writer who was intimately involved with the literary mainstream of
her time and whose theoretical and literary works played a
significant role in feminist debates of the period, prefiguring
present-day feminist discourse on essentialism and constructivism.
Raleigh Whitinger is a professor of German at the University of
Alberta. He is the author of Johannes Schlaf and German Naturalist
Drama and the translator of Eduard Morike's novel Nolten the
Painter: A Novella in Two Parts.
'Wenn es uberhaupt die Aufgabe des Biographen ist, den Denker durch
den Menschen zu erlautern, so gilt dies in ungewohnlich hohem Masse
fur Nietzsche, denn bei keinem Andern fallen ausseres Geisteswerk
und inneres Lebensbild so vollig in Eins zusammen.' (Lou
Andreas-Salome) Laut Anna Freud, Tochter Sigmund Freuds, nahm
Andreas-Salome mit diesem Buch uber Nietzsche die Psychoanalyse
vorweg. Auf Grundlage ihrer umfangreichen Textkenntnisse und ihrer
intimen personlichen Erfahrungen mit Nietzsche unternimmt es Lou
Andreas-Salome in diesem Werk, den Denker und Philosophen durch
seine Personlichkeit zu entschlusseln. Ihr gelingt eine ganz neue
und eigene Beleuchtung seines Charakters, seiner Wandlungen und
seiner Psyche. Lou Andreas-Salome ist eine der bekanntesten
Schriftstellerinnen, Essayisten und Psychoanalytikerinnen. Ihre
personlichen Beziehungen zu Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke
und Sigmund Freud sind bis heute Gegenstand der Forschung und
werden noch immer lebhaft diskutiert.
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