On Sublimation : a Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory and Treatment /
Rossella Valdre.
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource
- Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse: so is it an outdated concept, an endangered species?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 impli.