1st Edition
Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing
Introduction Sublimation—The Unfinished Theory
Part 1 Metaphor and Metapsyche
Theoretical Prologue: Translating Sublimation
Chapter 1 Freud: the Cleavage of Sense and Horror
Chapter 2 Sublimation and the Ethical
Chapter 3 Sublimation and Anti-Hermeneutics
Interlude Sublimation, War and Modernism
Part 2 Modernism: Drives and Defences
Chapter 4 May Sinclair at the Front
Chapter 5 Halsing David Jones
Conclusion Primal Sublimation
Biography
Luke Thurston is Director of the David Jones Centre at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism (2012), the co-editor (with Scott Brewster) of The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2018) and the translator of Jean Laplanche’s The Unfinished Copernican Revolution (2020).
