On sublimation : a path to the destiny of desire, theory, and treatment / / by Rossella Valdre

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453269903321
• Autore: Valdre Rossella
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-429-90281-6; 0-367-10213-7; 0-429-47804-6; 1-78241-240-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Collana: Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series
• Disciplina: 154.24
• Soggetti: Sublimation (Psychology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CONTROVERSIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS SERIES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Has sublimation disappeared? The destiny of a fundamental concept; CHAPTER TWO History of the concept of sublimation, from Freud to the present day: a brief literary review; CHAPTER THREE Sublimation in psychoanalytic theory; CHAPTER FOUR Sublimation in treatment: the end analysisand the "transformation of the aim"; CHAPTER FIVE Sublimation and creativity; CHAPTER SIX The impossible desire: great sublimationin art-Leonardo da Vinci according to Freud and Emily Dickinson; CHAPTER SEVEN Sublimation in the postmodern era: a vanishing idea or a different form of expression?CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores and revisits the concept of sublimation, in its various aspects and implications that it has in theory and clinical psychoanalysis, and also in its broader socio-cultural aspects. 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in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse: so is it an ; outdated concept, an endangered species? Does it belong to the archaeology of psychotherapy? Or, on the contrary, is it so much a part of analytical practice and so well established and implicit in theory that it is not necessary to discuss it any more? It is the prevailing opinion of the author that sublimation is nowadays expressed differently and has undergone a sort of anthropological mutation, as has happened to several Freudian concepts with the changing historical and cultural contexts.