a Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory and Treatment.
Rossella Valdré
London
Karnac Books
2014
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Controversies in psychoanalysis.
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.
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in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse: so is it an outdated concept, an endangered species?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.