Video: Lou Salome - Russian muse of Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud, because of which half of Europe lost his head
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Lou Salome (Louise Andreas Salome) could not be called a beauty, but she was very brave, independent and intelligent and knew how to impress men. She was often offered marriage proposals, but she refused - a Christian marriage seemed to her an absurd idea, even at the age of 17 she proclaimed herself an atheist. She lived with men, but at the same time remained a virgin until the age of 30. They were in love with her Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud … Why did this unusual woman so attract the attention of the greatest men of her era?
Louise Salome was born in St. Petersburg, in the family of a Russian citizen, German by blood, Gustav von Salome. She considered herself Russian and asked to call her Lelei, until the first man in love with her, the Dutch pastor Guillot, began to call her Lou - it was under this name that she became known later.
She was admired by rebel women, like the terrorist Vera Zasulich, whose portrait she kept until the end of her days. In Switzerland, Lou studied philosophy, in Italy she attended courses for emancipated women. One of the lecturers, 32-year-old philosopher Paul Re, fell in love with the student and proposed to her. She refused, but in return offered to live together and live as with her brother.
Among Paul Re's friends was the then little-known philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who was 17 years older than Lou. Nietzsche admitted that he had never met a woman equal to her in mind. He invited her to marry him, but she again refused and … invited to live with her and Paul.
Nietzsche wrote about her: “She is 20 years old, she is fast as an eagle, strong as a lioness, and at the same time a very feminine child. She was amazingly mature and ready for my way of thinking. In addition, she has an incredibly strong character, and she knows exactly what she wants - without asking anyone's advice and not caring about public opinion. " Nietzsche himself directed the photograph, where he and Paul Re are harnessed to a cart driven by this "genius Russian."
Nietzsche went mad with jealousy, passed from adoration to hatred, calling Lou either his good genius or "the embodiment of absolute evil." Many biographers claim that it was Lou Salome who became the prototype of his Zarathustra.
Lou nevertheless married the teacher of oriental languages Friedrich Andreas. The marriage was rather strange: the spouses did not have physical intimacy, young lovers attended her, and the maid gave birth to a child from her husband.
Rainer Maria Rilke was madly in love with her, for about 3 years she was his mistress. At that time she was 35 years old, Rilke - 21. Together they traveled all over Russia. “Without this woman, I could never have found my path in life,” he said.
In 1910, Lou published the book "Erotica", in which she wrote: "Nothing distorts love so much as fearful adaptability and grinding to each other. But the more and deeper two people are revealed, the worse consequences this grinding has: one loved one is "grafted" on to another, this allows one to parasitize at the expense of the other, instead of each deeply taking deep roots into his own rich world to make it a world and for another."
Lou Salomé was passionate about psychoanalysis, she practiced it herself, working with patients. Sigmund Freud could not resist her either, although she was already 50 at that time. She died at the age of 76, having outlived many of her lovers. “Whatever pain and suffering life may bring,” she wrote shortly before her death, “we should still welcome her. He who is afraid of suffering is also afraid of joy."
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