biography
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Andreas-Salomé, Lou
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pronunciation:
[andrayas salohmay
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1861–1937)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. She is particularly known for her friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke. In addition to novels and short stories, she wrote theoretical works concerned with psychoanalysis and anthropology. She envisaged the thought process as stemming from painful experience rather than from an autonomous, self-controlled ego. |
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