Salome

by Angela Livingstone

Born in 1861 in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salome is best known for the famous company she kept. But as this book reveals, her relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud were complex and she had profound influences on each of them. This biography brings us up close to her writing as well as to her life and meeting with Tolstoy, Wagner and other remarkable men. It explores, in depth, her relationship with Nietzsche who saw in her a natural heir to his philosophy. Only since knowing her I was ripe for my Zarathustra, he wrote.Salome's marriage was to last for 45 years, yet never be consummated. She had her first love affair at age 36, with a twenty-one-year-old Rilke. He wrote, ...through the relentless force of your words, my work become consecrated.At fifty Salome met Freud and studied under him for two years. Freud had a special admiration for Lou Andreas Salome, wrote Ernest Jones. She pent the rest of her life as a psychoanalyst; her friendship with Freud was to last until her death in 1937.

Genres: Biography, Philosophy, Womens

255 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1984

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lou Andreas-Salome is fascinating. She was intimately involved in the personal lives and professional work of Nietzsche (who proposed marriage twice), Rainer Maria Rilke and Freud. When she finally married she did so only on the terms that the marriage would not be consummated,and that she be allowed to travel away from home alone for extended periods of time so she could meet other people and write and develop her mind. Rilke was her first lover; she was in her late 3o's, he was in his early 20's. Their letters after the end of their romantic relationship were very important to the development of his voice as a poet. She later became a psychoanalyst, and reportedly her gift as a listener and encourager of the other, and her solidness as a person made her a very good therapist.

[Kozmokitap · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Kişi sonunda, arzu ettiği şeyi değil, arzusunu sever."
- Nietzsche -

Selam 🌿 #nietzscheağladığında yı okurken aşırı özgüveni ile dikkatimi çeken, bir görünüp bir kaybolan #louandreassalome ile sonunda tam anlamıyla tanışmış oldum. Henüz yirmi yaşında bütün erkekleri kendisine bağlayıp aşık eden, entelektüel birimi ile dikkatleri hemen üzerine çeken bu Rus kızı aslında nasıl birisiydi ? Nietzsche, Ree, Freud, Rilke gibi isimlerin hemen dikkatini çeken , onlarla her konuda rahatça sohbet eden , bilgi birikimi yanında kendisini sürekli geliştirmesi ile de takdire şayan bir kadın Salome. Cinsel birliktelik olmadan entelektüel birlikteliği savundu ve böyle de bir evlilik yaptı. Evlilikte sadakat ise ona göre değildi. Evli iken birlikte olduklarından birisi de Rilke idi.

Salome hakkında "Bir kartal gibi keskin zekâlı, bir aslan kadar yürekli .' diyen Nietzsche kendisine evlenme teklif etmiştir ancak o reddetti bu teklifi.
Felsefe , psikanaliz , din, Tanrı, aşk, gibi birçok konuda kitapları ve makaleleri olan Salome bana göre hak ettiği kadar tanınmıyor ve hak ettiği değeri görmüyor. O eserlerinden çok yaşadığı aşklar ile hatırlanıyor. 😔
Haziran ayında başladığım kitabı yavaş yavaş okudum yeni bitirdim. Salome'yi yakından tanıdığım için mutluyum. Şimdi elimdeki kitaplarını okumayı planlıyorum. Onu tanıdıktan sonra kitapları daha anlamlı olacaktır benim için ✌️

[Andrew Edis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is much more than a biography. Yes, it covers her life, it also covers her writings and ideas as well as her relationships. It gives an ‘all round’ picture of a very interesting woman.

[Kajah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Salome is an interesting character; her friendships and relationships with figures like Rilke and Nietzsche have always been her claim to fame, but this book presumably takes a closer look at her work and what it did and the conclusion still is that the most interesting thing about her were the ways she influenced Rilke and Nietzsche. Still, she is an important character in the history of art and ideas, and this book is very valuable as a research resource, as it includes appendixes with her work, and does convey how important she was to the above mentioned figures. Her life itself, if not her work, was interesting as a genuine intellectual and self-possessed woman in the German intellectual milieu who matched and sometimes outmatched her male contemporaries.