"We neither strive for, wish, seek nor desire anything because we think it to be good, but, on the contrary, we adjudge a thing to be good because we strive for, wish, seek, or desire it." Spinoza's aphorism could fittingly preface the life story of...

Wernz, Birgit. Sub-version: Weiblichkeitsentwurfe in den Erzdhlteten Lou AndreasSalomes . Pfaffenweiler. Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. 202pp. Birgit Wernz's monograph on Lou Andreas-Salome's literary work is inspired by constructivist theories of femininity that give new perspectives on Salome's texts and biography. Influenced primarily by Judith Butler,...

The previously unnoted echoes that link Thomas Mann's Tonio Kroger (1903) to Lou Andreas-Salome's two 1898 stories Fenitschka and Eine Ausschweifung offer a perspective on how the two authors, with their fictional narratives about the development of problematic artist-types, contribute to their generation's...

In the following essay, Martin discusses Andreas-Salomé's polemical engagement with Freud on the issues of narcissism and gender difference, noting her resistance to the rigid categories of orthodox psychoanalysis.

Binion is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt from his highly praised biography of Andreas-Salomé, he discusses her 1894 study of Friedrich Nietzsche's life and work.

(Livingstone is an English educator and critic. In the following excerpt she assesses Andreas-Salomé's theories on the historical origins and development of religion.