Gradiva

In the novella, the protagonist is fascinated by a female figure in an ancient relief and names her Gradiva, Latin for "she who steps along".

[1] Early after Gradiva's publication, psychoanalyst Carl Jung recommended the novella to his colleague Sigmund Freud.

[10] In 1937, the Surrealist author André Breton, credited with being a leader of the movement, opened an art gallery on the Rive Gauche called the Gradiva.

The studio was designed by Marcel Duchamp, who created the iconic door in the shape of the Gradiva accompanied by a male figure.

[11] In 1986, the French Surrealist writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris, together with Jean Jamin, founded Gradhiva, an academic journal covering topics in anthropology.