Abstract

The tug of war between love and logic in the discipline of psychoanalysis is nearly as old as the Freudian field itself; and is still heard today in the utterances of our analysands. “I love him, but I know he’s no good for me”. “Then why did you go back to him?” “...good question”. This question of love and its logics are at the heart of writer and director Cordula Kablit-Post’s 2016 film Lou Andreas-Salome: The Audacity to be Free.

Highlights

  • “The question of knowing if psychoanalysis can promise a new love, beyond the symptoms of love life that are addressed to it, has been there from the start...[F]rom the beginning, Freud postulated that the bonds of the passions of love, incomprehensible as they are, escape neither rationality nor logic.” -Colette Soler, Lacan: the Unconscious Reinvented (2014)

  • I will say that the scene of Salome in analysis render the analytic situation far better than I have seen it in many films

  • I believe those who know nothing of psychoanalysis, as well as those who are more acquainted with it may find themselves more curious about the process

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Introduction

“The question of knowing if psychoanalysis can promise a new love, beyond the symptoms of love life that are addressed to it, has been there from the start...[F]rom the beginning, Freud postulated that the bonds of the passions of love, incomprehensible as they are, escape neither rationality nor logic.” -Colette Soler, Lacan: the Unconscious Reinvented (2014). This question of love and its logics are at the heart of writer and director Cordula Kablit-Post’s 2016 film Lou Andreas-Salome: The Audacity to be Free. The German language film begins when a young scholar, Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier), seeks out an interview with the ailing and embittered psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salome (Nicole Heesters); suffering from a variety of regrets and ailments at seventy-two.

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