Lou Von Salome (a Biography Of The Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche And Rilke)

By (author) Vickers Julia
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The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, an essayist, and a well-known literary critic. This biography tells the story of Salome''s entire life and career.
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The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking essayist, and a well-known literary critic. In addition to all this, Salome was a real-life muse for some of the most brilliant men of her time.

This biography tells the story of Salome''s entire life and career, focusing on her young adulthood; celibate marriage with linguistics scholar Carl Friedrich Andreas; rumored affairs with Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainier Maria Rilke, and several other authors and poets; and her relationship with Sigmund Freud, which was marked most notably by their contrasting views of psychoanalysis.

Table of contents:
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     

PART I. GOD THE FATHER
1. A Russian General’s Daughter     
2. Ecco Homo     
3. Girl Genius     
4. The Nietzsche Experience     
5. Any Third Person     
6. The Birth of a Tragedy     
7. Divine Inspiration     
8. The Mysterious Mr. Andreas     

PART II. MUSES AND WRITERS
9. Marriage—and a Life     
10. In Nietzsche’s Shadow     
11. L’homme Eternal     
12. The Inspiration of a Young Poet     
13. Love and Other Difficulties     
14. To Russia, with Love     
15. Together, Alone     
16. The Land in Between     

PART III. FATHER FREUD
17. Oedipus Rex     
18. Ego and Eros     
19. The Beautiful Narcissist     
20. That of Loss     
21. Return to the All     

Afterword     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     

Biographical note:
Writer, producer, editor and researcher Julia Vickers works for the PBS program, Religion and Ethics. She lives in Germantown, Maryland.