Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke - Lu Salome

The truth is that I saw "another person" standing in front of me, a person whose features I could not discern beneath the aura of sanctity I had bestowed upon him. Nevertheless, I say: I was not mistaken in attributing holiness to him, for despite everything he was the person I owe gratitude to, and he was the person whose presence and influence I needed to find my true self. This dual relationship (being both lover and synonymous with the image of God) was manifested in that I never formalized our relationship, nor did I call him by his first name as he did with me despite the love between us, and throughout my life, addressing him with the respectful form (حضرتك) was synonymous with intimacy and familiarity, while addressing him with (أنتَ) was synonymous with speaking to those of lesser importance. This is a work that appears to be a memoir but is in essence a self-accounting. Psychoanalyst Lu Andrias Salomi reflects on her life journey, rediscovering the truth of her relationship with God, love, death, and life, through narrating her relationship with three Western intellectual figures: Nietzsche, Freud, and Reicke.