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On Sublimation A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment
By Rossella Valdre
Copyright 2014
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
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Rossella Valdre
