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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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