Book
The Erotic
Die Erotik
Copyright Life + 70 years Public domain The last author or translator died in 1937; public domain since 2008.United States Public domain Published in 1910; public domain since 2006.
A short monograph for Martin Buber’s series of social-psychological studies, written before Andreas-Salomé turned to psychoanalysis. Starting from sexuality as a bodily need, it follows erotic love into the lover’s overvaluation of the beloved, which it treats as a creative act of idealisation rather than mere illusion, and compares love with artistic creation and religious fervour, which share its roots. It ends with love’s return into social life.
- Published
- 1910
- In
- Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening (Die Gesellschaft, vol. 33, ed. Martin Buber)
- Language
- German