Freud on Sublimation - Reconsiderations

This book is the only full-length treatment of the relationship between aesthetic truths and psychoanalytic discoveries-of art, artists, and a new concept of sublimation. It provides a radical and unique study of the concept of sublimation and proposes a modest replacement for it. In the first third of the book the author reviews critically the psychoanalytic sources of the concept of sublimation. In the second third he shows how the concept developed from Freud's nineteenth-century notions of perception. In the last third he revises a concept of sublimation using a contemporary theory of perception. In the final chapter he examines four works of literature: short stories of John Cheever, a Japanese novel, portions of Hamlet, and sublimation and perversion in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

About the author

Volney P. Gay is Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. His previous book, Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations, published by SUNY Press, won the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Product details

• Authors: Volney P Gay, Volney P. Gay
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1992
• EAN: 9780791411841
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1184-1
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Series: Suny Series in Religious Studi; Suny Religious Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis