Vida y obra de Lou Andreas Salomeuna aportación al estudio psicoanalítico de la feminidad

Resumo

This PhD thesis work investigates the thinking of Lou Andreas Salome, and its evolution from philosophy to psychoanalysis. Through her biography, the work displays the formation and development of her ideas, mixed with her personal experiences and exchanges with Paul Rée and Nietzsche, with whom she was an exceptional conversation partner. The thesis studies the fundamental subjects that interested her: God, religion , the conflict between giving and individuality, the meaning of life, and particularly, women, their independence, feelings, and love realtionships. The thesis also anlyses Lou?ork on the personality and writing of Nietzsche and the influence this had on her own work. Also her relationship with Rilke, their close way of thinking, her comprehension of the poet? suffering, exchanges and mutual influences. Throughout this work it is revealed how Lou? ideas and interests, straightened by these relationships, take her towards psychoanalysis, where she finds the way to understand some of these questions. In particular, the work analyzes the closeness of her relationship with Freud, and the importance of their special interchanges, which convert her again in an intensity and depth of that interchange, both from the theorical as well as the personal point of view. It also states how she integrates her philosophical thinking into the psychoanalytical. The work explains Freud? acknowledgement of Lou? ideas and how through her, Freud searched a better understanding of women; it also explains how Freud? work was influenced by Lou? perceptions. Special attention has been given to her contribution to the subject of narcissism and women.