Work Lou Andreas-Salomé







salomé prolific writer, , wrote several little-known novels, plays, , essays. authored hymn life impressed nietzsche moved set music. salomé s literary , analytical studies became such vogue in göttingen, german town in lived last years, gestapo waited until shortly after death uremia in 1937 clean library of works jews.


she 1 of first female psychoanalysts , 1 of first women write psychoanalytically on female sexuality, before helene deutsch, instance in essay on anal-erotic (1916), essay admired freud. however, had written psychology of female sexuality before ever met freud, in book die erotik (1911).


she wrote more dozen novels, such im kampf um gott, ruth, rodinka, ma, fenitschka – eine ausschweifung , non-fiction studies such henrik ibsens frauengestalten (1892), study of ibsen s woman characters , book on friend nietzsche, friedrich nietzsche in seinen werke (1894).


she edited memoir on lifelong close friend , onetime lover, poet rainer maria rilke, after death in 1926. among works lebensrückblick, book wrote during last years based on memories of life free woman. in memoirs, first published in original german in 1951, goes depth matters of faith , relationships.



whoever reaches rosebush may seize handful of flowers; no matter how many 1 holds, s small portion of whole. nevertheless, handful enough experience nature of flowers. if refuse reach bush, because can t possibly seize flowers @ once, or if spread out our handful of roses if whole of bush — bloom apart us, unknown us, , left alone.



salomé said have remarked in last days, have done nothing work life, work ... why? , in last hours, if talking herself, reported have said, if let thoughts roam find no one. best, after all, death.








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