ABSTRACT
When Lou Andreas-Salomé came into Freud’s circle in 1912, she was bound to represent an acquisition for Freud personally, as well as for psychoanalysis. As Nietzsche’s friend and expositor, she came to Freud with the aura of past European culture. Lou was still on close terms with Rilke, whose lover she had been and whose development as a poet she had assisted; together they had taken a trip to Russia, where they made Tolstoy’s acquaintance. (Lou introduced Rilke to Freud in 1913, and Freud once wrote a paper about the meeting. 1 )
