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Lou Andreas-Salomé et Marie Bonaparte, indépendantes mais pas rebelles, ont en commun un statut social particulier différent tant de Freud que des autres psychanalystes qui l’entourent. La relation d’affection et d’estime, plus facile que celle que Freud pourra avoir avec ses collègues hommes toujours supposés rivaux, n’ira pas cependant jusqu’à accepter d’elles les éléments novateurs qu’elles ont été en mesure de lui proposer.

Lou Andreas-Salomé and Marie Bonaparte were both independent women but were not rebels and they shared similar social status, one quite different to that of Freud and the psychoanalysts they interacted with. The affection and esteem Freud showed them, far more easily than to his male colleagues and supposed rivals, did not however extend to his accepting the innovative elements they were in a position to put forward.