In the last phase of her life, Lou Andreas-Salome, a figure of considerable fascination who had been intimately associated with Nietzsche and Rilke, found a whole new ""experience"" or direction through Freud and psychoanalysis, which she practiced under his tutelage. This volume, edited and annotated by her literary executor, contains the exchange of letters between Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome over a period of twenty years -- a correspondence which is reciprocally illuminating.