Lou Andreas-Salomé
Born into a strictly Protestant family, Lou Andreas-Salomé grew up to become the first female psychoanalyst.
Guided by an ambitious cause - seeking intellectual perfection. Her life was copious encounters with some of the brightest thinkers of her time - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and others.
Freud, actually, described her as a "woman of dangerous intelligence".
Big Idea: Express Yourself
According to historians, Lou Andreas-Salomé was always more interested in intellectual relationships rather than romantic ones. Which, contrary to her aims, draw even more men towards her.
But the constant romantic offers didn't distract her.
She kept progressing towards her goal to study and create literary work in the form of fiction, criticism, essays on religion, philosophy, sexuality, and psychology.
For Salomé, the idea of fulfilling one’s own nature was of prime importance.
She considered that the biggest sin one could commit is to be dishonest with one's own nature. That's why the ideal. The fuel that kept her progressing intellectually was self-realization. Expressing herself through her work. To her, this was the highest form of achievement and a way for a person to solve his internal conflicts.
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