ABSTRACT
Literature has mainly been concerned with Lilith the rebel who, in her assertion of her right to freedom and pleasure, to equality with men, brings about the downfall of both herself and those she meets. The surprising thing is that the woman who is presumed to have inspired Wedekind's play, Lou Andreas Salome, was herself described by Freud as having the features and characteristics related to the Lilith myth. Imprisoned and awaiting his execution, it is to the glory of the Lilith who has brought him to this, to remind himself of her and to escape the pain which her death gives him Lolita dies in childbirth that Humbert writes his story. The aim of the myth of Lilith is to keep men away from her by warning them of the danger she represents for them. Whatever the case, Lilith always reminds us that the forces of death correspond to the forces of life and that everything is balanced.
