Book
The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé
In der Schule bei Freud: Tagebuch eines Jahres 1912/1913
The journal Andreas-Salomé kept during her stay in Vienna from October 1912 to April 1913, edited after her death by Ernst Pfeiffer. It records Freud’s lectures and the Wednesday meetings of his circle, her parallel attendance at Alfred Adler’s discussion evenings, and her conversations with Freud, Viktor Tausk and others. It is a first-hand source on the psychoanalytic movement after the break with Adler. English translation: The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé (1964).
What it shows
- 1912
Sigmund Freud influenced Lou Andreas-Salomé
After meeting Freud at the Weimar congress of 1911, Andreas-Salomé spent 1912–13 in Vienna attending his lectures and the Wednesday meetings, recorded in her diary In der Schule bei Freud; her open letter of 1931 for his seventy-fifth birthday sets out what she took from his work.