A look at the Salome-freud correspondence

摘要

The author notes that the changing emphasis of the correspondence between Lou Andreas- Salome and Sigmund Freud over the years reflects certain aspects of the development of every analyst. Her contributions are shown to illustrate the evolution of the analyst's relationship with theory and the growth of his or her clinical capacity and involvement. Two phases in the analyst's clinical progression are stated to be discernible in the corre- spondence, marked by changes of direction that mirror the changing nature of her rela- tionship with Freud.