On Sublimation - A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory and Attachment

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Rossella Valdre

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Rossella Valdre, Rossella Valdrè
• Assisted by: Flora Capostagno (Translation), Caroline Williamson (Translation)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9781782200284
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-028-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Controversies in Psychoanalysi; The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series; The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series; International Psychoanalytical; Controversies in Psychoanalysi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works