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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY The Freud Journal S T A N L E Y A. L E A V Y of Lou Andreas-Salome BASIC BOOKS, INC., PUBLISHERS New York TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY The Freud Journal S T A N L E Y A. L E A V Y of Lou Andreas-Salome BASIC BOOKS, INC., PUBLISHERS New York Preface Acknowledgrnents for assistance in preparing my translation of "In der Schule bei Freud"(Zurich: Max Niehans Verlag, 1958) are especially due to three persons: First to the editor of the German text, Herr Ernst Pfeiffer of Gottingen, whose reading has been used as it was originally published by him and whose explanatory notes I have freely consulted. Second, I wish to ex press my thanks to Mrs. Eva Kessler of New Haven, who has very carefully read the text and in innumerable places has sug gested a more graceful or more faithful translation. Third, I am indebted to Prof. Rudolph Binion of Columbia University, who in many letters and conversations has shared with me his knowl edge of the life, work, and character of Lou Andreas-Salome. I have found Dr. H. F. Peters' recent biography, "My Sister, My Spouse" (New York: W. W. Norton, 1962), very helpful; it also contains an excellent bibliography of the writings of Lou Andreas-Salome. Miss Anna Freud kindly related to me some of her personal recollections of her and her father's friend. Mrs. Lottie M. Newman and Dr. Hans W. Loewald have made valu able suggestions. I am grateful to Prof. Albert Ehrenzweig of the University of California, Berkeley, for his translation of the poem "Narziss" by Rainer M. Rilke. Mrs. Grete Heinemann expertly prepared the final manu script. To my wife I am obligated for her interest and her patience Copyright© 1964 by Basic Books, Inc. in the long presence of this invisible but formidable guest. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-23130 Manufactured in the United States of America New Haven-Chilmark STANLEY A. LEAVY Designed by Jacqueline Schuman July 1964 Preface Acknowledgrnents for assistance in preparing my translation of "In der Schule bei Freud"(Zurich: Max Niehans Verlag, 1958) are especially due to three persons: First to the editor of the German text, Herr Ernst Pfeiffer of Gottingen, whose reading has been used as it was originally published by him and whose explanatory notes I have freely consulted. Second, I wish to ex press my thanks to Mrs. Eva Kessler of New Haven, who has very carefully read the text and in innumerable places has sug gested a more graceful or more faithful translation. Third, I am indebted to Prof. Rudolph Binion of Columbia University, who in many letters and conversations has shared with me his knowl edge of the life, work, and character of Lou Andreas-Salome. I have found Dr. H. F. Peters' recent biography, "My Sister, My Spouse" (New York: W. W. Norton, 1962), very helpful; it also contains an excellent bibliography of the writings of Lou Andreas-Salome. Miss Anna Freud kindly related to me some of her personal recollections of her and her father's friend. Mrs. Lottie M. Newman and Dr. Hans W. Loewald have made valu able suggestions. I am grateful to Prof. Albert Ehrenzweig of the University of California, Berkeley, for his translation of the poem "Narziss" by Rainer M. Rilke. Mrs. Grete Heinemann expertly prepared the final manu script. To my wife I am obligated for her interest and her patience Copyright© 1964 by Basic Books, Inc. in the long presence of this invisible but formidable guest. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-23130 Manufactured in the United States of America New Haven-Chilmark STANLEY A. LEAVY Designed by Jacqueline Schuman July 1964 Contents Preface v Introduction STANLEY A. LEAVY 1 I. In Freud's School 29 II. Journeys and Meetings 133 Notes 194 Index 207 Contents Preface v Introduction STANLEY A. LEAVY 1 I. In Freud's School 29 II. Journeys and Meetings 133 Notes 194 Index 207 ef The Freud Journal Lou Andreas-Salome ef The Freud Journal Lou Andreas-Salome Introduction Lou Andreas-Salome will probably always be remembered best for her friendships, notably for those with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. The sheer weight of the names ensures her vicarious immortality; who else could have been even slightly acquainted with all three? The apposition of the philosopher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst in the life and memories of one woman sug gests her uniqueness of character. Hers was no borrowed luster. There existed such interaction between the woman and each of the three men that her spirit may be found to have insinuated it self into the writings of all of them. Hence we turn with interest to the first of her journals to be published and look in it for the fresh record of great meetings. Even the most intimate of private journals seems to presup pose the eventual attention of a second reader. This one has about it the note of address to an audience which implies that it was designed for publication, at least in part, and we must as sume that the author's critical eye attended it. It was kept in a little red loose-leaf notebook which escaped the Nazis, who after her death in 1937 presumed to purge her library. For the most part it is a record of her studies with Freud and his pupils, but the remarkable fact of the record is that the student ap proached her teacher as a respectful equal, never doubting that the experiences of her own life could serve as criteria for the validity of the findings of the great discoverer. Introduction Lou Andreas-Salome will probably always be remembered best for her friendships, notably for those with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. The sheer weight of the names ensures her vicarious immortality; who else could have been even slightly acquainted with all three? The apposition of the philosopher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst in the life and memories of one woman sug gests her uniqueness of character. Hers was no borrowed luster. There existed such interaction between the woman and each of the three men that her spirit may be found to have insinuated it self into the writings of all of them. Hence we turn with interest to the first of her journals to be published and look in it for the fresh record of great meetings. Even the most intimate of private journals seems to presup pose the eventual attention of a second reader. This one has about it the note of address to an audience which implies that it was designed for publication, at least in part, and we must as sume that the author's critical eye attended it. It was kept in a little red loose-leaf notebook which escaped the Nazis, who after her death in 1937 presumed to purge her library. For the most part it is a record of her studies with Freud and his pupils, but the remarkable fact of the record is that the student ap proached her teacher as a respectful equal, never doubting that the experiences of her own life could serve as criteria for the validity of the findings of the great discoverer.
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