Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations (SUNY Series in Religious Studies) - Couverture souple

Gay, Volney Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791411842 ISBN 13 : 9780791411841

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book is the only full-length treatment of the relationship between aesthetic truths and psychoanalytic discoveries-of art, artists, and a new concept of sublimation. It provides a radical and unique study of the concept of sublimation and proposes a modest replacement for it. In the first third of the book the author reviews critically the psychoanalytic sources of the concept of sublimation. In the second third he shows how the concept developed from Freud's nineteenth-century notions of perception. In the last third he revises a concept of sublimation using a contemporary theory of perception. In the final chapter he examines four works of literature: short stories of John Cheever, a Japanese novel, portions of Hamlet, and sublimation and perversion in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Volney P. Gay is Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. His previous book, Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations, published by SUNY Press, won the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791411842
• ISBN 13: 9780791411841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
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• Personne responsable: non disponible