SOURCE: A review of The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé, in The New York Times Book Review, January 3, 1965, p. 5.

[A German-born English poet, translator and critic, Hamburger has been widely praised for his translations of such poets as Friedrich Hoelderlin and Georg TrakL In the following

Rilke (left) and Andreas-Salomé on their second trip to Russia in 1900, at the home of the poet Spiridon Drozhzhin in the village of Nizovka.

Of the many kinds of readers who will be interested in The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Slomé, my kind may well be the most peripheral, since I am not a psychologist or even a literary Freudian. It is to such as these that Lou Andreas-Salomés record of the psychoanalytic inner circle's transactions in 1912 and 1913 will prove...