Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9781138505247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 172 str.

Giuseppe Civitarese

Opis

Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: What is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically, but also in clinical practice, where the issue at stake is how to help the analysand’s mind to grow or, better, to increase the ability to give a meaning to experience. Sublime Subjects will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literature and philosophy scholars.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Bion and the sublime: the origins of an aesthetic paradigm 2 On sublimation 3 Masochism and its rhythm 4 Whirlpools, rhythms, ideas: aesthetic experience and intersubjective constitution of the individual 5 Hypochondria and the politics of narcissism 6 Dora: The postscripts 7 Where does the reality principle begin?
The work of margins in Freud’s "Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning" 8 Truth as immediacy and unison: a new common ground in psychoanalysis? Commentaries on essays addressing "Is truth relevant?"

O autorze

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI). Previous work includes, The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and, as editor,　Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reading ‘A Memoir of the Future’.