Autoridad femenina y resignificación masculina. Algunas reflexiones alrededor de la relación entre Lou Andreas Salomé y Rainer María Rilke

Taking feminine authority as the fundamental element of the resignifying or reorientation of the male symbolic, and as a result of the experiences of personal relationship, of university learning and readings, and in relation to historical binomials such as those of Teresa of Avila and Juan of the Cross, or Margarita Porete and Master Eckhart, I attempt to look in more depth at the relationship between the sexes and at the transference of that feminine authority by studying the rich and complex relationship that existed between Lou Andreas Salomé and Rainer Maria Rilke. In Rainer we can observe a need to get closer to otherness and opening that is uncommon amongst men; however, more weight seems to be given to the rejection of the relationship and a tendency towards isolation, attitudes that seem to belong to our sex and that may explain the destructive attitude towards a world that we seem to understand as a projection of ourselves. In this text I dare to outline a possible solution to male uprootedness and our not knowing how to be; it is a question of paying attention to women and to their thought, taking into account not only that their interpretations are unique and of difficult access to the present day male symbolic, but also that they carry a high content of mediation which can improve our relationship with the world.