On Sublimation: A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780367102135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Rossella Valdre

Opis

This book explores the concept of sublimation, in its various aspects and implications that it has in theory and clinical psychoanalysis. The basic assumption that aroused the author's interest in the topic is a certain surprise in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse

Spis treści

Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series , Introduction , Has sublimation disappeared? The destiny of a fundamental concept , History of the concept of sublimation, from Freud to the present day: a brief literary review , Sublimation in psychoanalytic theory , Sublimation in treatment: the end-analysis and the “transformation of the aim” , Sublimation and creativity , The impossible desire: great sublimation in art—Leonardo da Vinci according to Freud and Emily Dickinson , Sublimation in the postmodern era: a vanishing idea or a different form of expression? , Conclusion

O autorze

Rossella Valdre