TY - BOOK AU - Valdré,Rossella TI - On Sublimation: a Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory and Treatment T2 - Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series SN - 9781782412403 AV - BF175 .O578 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Karnac Books KW - Sublimation (Psychology) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse: so is it an outdated concept, an endangered species?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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=752294&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -