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Zusatztext Goebel (German studies! New York Univ.) reframes a central tenet of Freudian thought! sublimation! to tell an alternative story of modern intellectual history and thought. In seven chapters! he discusses sublimation in Goethe! Schopenhauer! Nietzsche! Freud! Mann! Adorno! and Lacan! thus discussing Freud's term along with its conceptual prehistory and reception?Chapter 6! 'The Sublimation of Nature: Theodor W. Adorno!'offers a refreshing perspective on critical theory--and surprising turns to the cultural history of the 'Grand Hotel' making this an enjoyable read in cultural theory even for those less interested in sublimation. As the subtitle anticipates! the book concludes with a chapter on Lacan. This is a book for intellectual historians as well as practitioners of psychoanalysis. Recommended: Graduate students! researchers! professionals. Informationen zum Autor Eckart Goebel (M.St. University of Oxford; Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin) is Professor and Chair of the German Department! and Director of Graduate Studies! at New York University! USA. He is the author of Konstellation und Existenz. Kritik der Geschichte um 1930: Studien zu Heidegger! Benjamin! Jahnn und Musil (Tübingen! 1996)! Am Ufer der zweiten Welt. Jean Pauls "Poetische Landschaftsmalerei" (Tubingen! 1999)! Der engagierte Solitär. Die Gewinnung des Begriffs Einsamkeit aus der Phänomenologie der Liebe im Frühwerk Jean-Paul Sartres (Berlin! 2001)! Charis und Charisma. Grazie und Gewalt von Winckelmann bis Heidegger (Berlin! 2006) and Jenseits des Unbehagens. Sublimierung von Goethe bis Lacan (Bielefeld! 2009). He serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford German Studies. James C. Wagner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of German at New York University! USA. Klappentext A sweeping intellectual history! encompassing literature! philosophy and psychoanalysis! of the pervasive idea of sublimation in German thought. A sweeping intellectual history, encompassing literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis, of the pervasive idea of sublimation in German thought. Zusammenfassung According to Freud's later works! we do not really feel well or free within civilization. Our discontent never disappears! and we shall never become completely reliable members of society. Alcohol already suffices! Freud tells us! to ruin the fragile architecture of sublimations. Since 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle!' sublimation seems to be nothing more than a euphemism for suppressing the drives. We sublimate because we did not get or were not allowed to have what we 'actually' wanted. Is sublimation a mere surrogate or perhaps even the name psychoanalysis found for 'theoria' in the twentieth century? With Freud as its pivot! Goebel provides an intellectual history of sublimation! which also serves as an introduction to other key ideas associated with the authors discussed! such as Schopenhauer's philosophy of music! the will to power in Nietzsche! the structure of Freudian psychoanalysis! Adorno's concept of modern art! or Lacanian ethics. In examining both its prehistory and reception! Goebel argues that sublimation can be reconsidered as the road toward an individual and social life beyond discontent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword and Acknowledgments Preface 1. Trilogy of Passion: Goethe as Paradigm and Provocation 2. The Sound of Psychoanalysis: Arthur Schopenhauer 3. Transfigured Physis : Friedrich Nietzsche 4. Self-Control: Sigmund Freud 5. Walking the Dog: Creaturely Transcendence in Thomas Mann 6. Sublimation of Nature: Theodor W. Adorno 7. Das Ding : Jacques Lacan's Luther Bibliography Index ...
