1st Edition
The Hour of Birth Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
By Giuseppe Civitarese
Copyright 2026
132 Pages
21 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
21 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
21 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.
Through the lens of a radically intersubjective psychoanalytic theory, Civitarese reinvents the Freudian notion of sublimation. He theorises that the aesthetic of the sublime reflects the internal process of... Read more
1. The Imminence of the Object 2. A Success Story 3. The Sublime Now 4. The Snake in the Maze 5. A Space Full of Darkness 6. The River-God of Blood 7. Savage Beauty 8. Heavenly Palaces 9. Can't Help Myself 10. Sublimation Reinvented 11. The Matter of Time 12. The Abject Body 13. Oh Life, Begun in a Bloody Flow
Biography
Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He lives and is in private practice, in Pavia, Italy.
