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Russian-German writer

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The mother of psychoanalysis
Russian-German writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, c. 1905.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke read Lou Andreas-Salomé's essay “Jesus der Juden”...
From Rainer Maria Rilke by Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1928
Lou Andreas-Salomé (center) with Rainer Maria Rilke (left) and Spiridon Drozhzhin, c. 1900
In 1899 and again in 1900, Lou Andreas-Salomé traveled to Russia with the Austro-German...
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