1st Edition

Sublimation and Superego Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths

By Jared Russell Copyright 2021
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book integrates thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global consumer marketplace. Beginning with an analysis of the fate of the concept of sublimation in Freud’s work, and its relationship to the elaboration of the concept of the superego in 1923,... Read more

1. Freud—Sublimation and superego  2. Hans Loewald—between Freud and Heidegger  3. The fundamental ontology of Christopher Bollas  4. Antigone—sublimation as transgressive autonomy  5. Weapons

Biography

Jared Russell, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Clinic: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Metaphysics (Routledge 2017) and Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud’s Psychic Apparatus (Routledge 2020).

'In Sublimation and Superego, Jared Russell opens up a transitional space where Freud is brought into conversation with Sophocles, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Deleuze as well as post-Freudian psychoanalysts like Loewald and Bollas. In this space, the dialogue between these thinkers transcends the disciplinary boundaries of  ontology, metaphysics, psychoanalysis and deconstruction. Sublimation and Superego points the way to a deeper understanding of the relationship between self and other, both in and out of the clinic.' - Mikita Brottman, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA

'A timely retrieval of the question of sublimation for psychoanalysis. The third installment of an author whose rigorous sincerity shows the great value of clinicians and theorists responding to the critical discoveries of Nietzsche.' - Tim Themi, University of Melbourne, Australia