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Lecture on 'Anal and Sexual' by Lou Andreas-Salomé. Imago 1916. Jean Chambon. Pp. 179-190.
These two papers from the French Psychoanalytic Institute's Fifteenth Advanced Training Seminar review the contributions of Lou Andreas-Salomé to psychoanalytic theory, in particular to theories of female sexuality. The first, by Cosnier, is a study of Andreas-Salomé's The Feminine Type; in the second, Chambon considers her paper, Anal and Sexual. Both writers claim that Andreas-Salomé should receive more attention for the originality of her work and for her anticipation of later discussions of psychoanalytic theory and female sexuality. Many of her formulations, especially on the role of anal erotism in sexuality and in narcissism (in contemporary terminology), have a very modern ring. Cosnier suggests that Andreas-Salomé viewed unconscious material as a source of life, a view which she claims ran counter to Freud's rationalism.