Reflections on the Problem of Love PT 1 by Lou Andreas Salomé read by A Poetry Channel

"...all love is a creative action, a joy of creation caused by the beloved person but not because of her but because of and due to oneself..." ~Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a Russian-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished thinkers for whom she was muse and who all fell madly in love with her, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Salomé discussed philosophy with Nietzsche, poetry with Rilke, and psychoanalysis with Freud. She published a pathbreaking study of Henrik Ibsen’s philosophical heroines (1892), and Martin Buber commissioned her to write The Erotic. In it, Salomé develops the view that embodiment serves as a basis for selfhood and also for intersubjective relations. Indeed, she transforms and expands the very idea of eroticism so that its narrow connection to sexuality emerges as the mere tip of an existence that is sensual at its core – if we allow it to be, that is. Her psychoanalytic work offers radical interpretations of female psychology. My name is Lori. If you enjoy my readings and would like to show your support, you can buy me a cup of coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_ap... #audiobook #womenempowerment #love #psychology #women #essay