Description
Book SynopsisPsychoanalyst 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 equalitythe 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 u
Table of Contents
Foreword
Matthew Del Nevo
Introduction to Die Erotik: Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salome, and Psychoanalysis
Gary Winship
Die Erotik [The Erotic]
Lou Andreas-Salome
Translated by John Crisp
Index
