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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791044303321

Autore

Valdre Rossella

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-91704-X

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)

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outdated concept, an endangered species?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.