Lou Andreas-Salome 1861 – 1937
Lou Andreas-Salome (1861 – 1937) was a Russian-German philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Lou Andreas-Salome was a Russian-born German writer, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, whose intimate intellectual companionship with Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud placed her at the center of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European thought. Her early Friedrich Nietzsche in His Works gave the first sustained interpretation of Nietzsche by a thinker who had known him personally, while The Erotic and her late writings on female psychology in the Freud circle developed an original philosophy of love, narcissism, and the religious feeling, midway between continental philosophy and depth psychology.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian-German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome:
“We are not the masters of our love; love is the master of us.”
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Attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome:
“Religion is the longing of the part for the whole, before any doctrine names it.”
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Attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome:
“Health and illness are not opposites; they are the two faces of every life.”
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Attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome:
“A philosophy that has not first been lived has not yet been thought.”
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Attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome:
“The narcissism of the soul is the original form of its love of life.”
Frequently asked about Lou Andreas-Salome
- When did Lou Andreas-Salome live?
- Lou Andreas-Salome was born in 1861 and died in 1937.
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- Lou Andreas-Salome was a Russian-German philosopher of the Modern era.
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- Lou Andreas-Salome was associated with Continental Philosophy.
- What was Lou Andreas-Salome known for?
- Lou Andreas-Salome was a Russian-born German writer, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, whose intimate intellectual companionship with Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud placed her at the center of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European thought.
- How many quotes are attributed to Lou Andreas-Salome?
- There are 15 attributed quotations from Lou Andreas-Salome in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.