''Lebensrückblick'' ( en, Life Review) is an autobiographical text written by
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, russian: link=no, Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a ...
and compiled by Ernst Pfeiffer, who edited and published Andreas-Salomé's
literary remains
The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed wo ...
in 1951, some 15 years after her death.
The book recounts her many memories of intellectual and relational encounters with prominent figures such as poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...
(Chapter Seven, entitled "Mit Rainer," or "With Rainer") and psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
(Chapter Eight, entitled "Das Erlebnis Freud," or "The Freud Experience"). The book was translated into English by
Breon Mitchell
Breon Mitchell (born ''Bert Breon Mitchell''; 1942) is a (retired) American professor of Germanic Studies and translator. He was a Professor of Germanic Studies, chair of the Comparative Literature Department, and Director of the Lilly Library of ...
in 1995, yet remains less well-known than Andreas-Salomé's other translated memoir, ''You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke.''
1951 non-fiction books
Lebensruckblick (Lou Andreas-Salome)
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