Lou Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background (2024)

Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Jason Maurice Yonover (ed.), Kristin Gjesdal (ed.)

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2024

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9780191953903

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9780192862884

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Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century

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Katharina T Kraus

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    May 2024

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Kraus, Katharina T, 'Lou Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background', in Jason Maurice Yonover, and Kristin Gjesdal (eds), Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191953903.003.0016, accessed 23 May 2024.

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This chapter explores the influence of Spinoza’s philosophy both on Salomé’s early philosophy of life, before her encounter with psychoanalysis, and on her later work in psychoanalysis. It highlights how the Spinozistic elements of her thought mark a continuity throughout her work, despite shifts in terminology. After a brief biographical sketch of her early encounter with Spinoza’s philosophy and her later turn to psychoanalysis, the chapter examines three Spinozistic themes in Salomé’s thought: first, her conception of the primordial ground (Urgrund) of life as the all-unity (All-Einheit), which is compared with Spinoza’s divine substance and the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious; second, her psychosomatic parallelism as two ways of representing life, which can be seen as building upon Spinoza’s account of mind and body; and third, her account of the ethical dimension of human life, which echoes Spinoza’s theory of the affects and perfection.

Keywords: psychoanalysis, Salomé, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Sigmund Freud, God, gender, monism, unconscious, ethics

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European History Modern History (1700 to 1945) History of Western Philosophy

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