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OverviewSublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically, but also in clinical practice, where the issue at stake is how to help the analysand’s mind to grow or, better, to increase the ability to give a meaning to experience. Giuseppe Civitarese here argues that the psychoanalytic theory of sublimation and the aesthetic theory of the sublime are theories of subjectivation that can illuminate each other and give us a better understanding of the birth of the psyche. The aesthetic experience in art and in psychoanalytic practice are concerned with the social constitution of the individual, understood at its pre-reflective, non-verbal or inter-corporeal level. It is at this level that, thanks to the encounter with a receptive other, the turbulences of sensations and proto-emotions become soothing rhythms, proto-ideas or sensible ideas at first and, once words are added, concepts. In Bionian terms, the at-one-ment between mother and baby is a form of primordial abstraction and occurs first in the dimension of the purely sensory and indistinct, and then in the affective space, which nonetheless is always a symbolic space if we take account that sociality is provided for the couple-system by the mother. It is exactly the intersubjective process of elevating toward conceptual thinking, but without ever detaching oneself from the thinking deposited in the body as procedural knowledge, that justifies the definition adopted here of human beings as Sublime Subjects. This book explores these topics not only through the lens of the concept of sublimation or the theory of the sublime, but also through those of masochism, hypochondria, truth and two readings of classical Freudian papers such as the clinical case of Dora and ‘Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning’. Sublime Subjects will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literature and philosophy scholars. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Giuseppe CivitaresePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138505247ISBN 10: 1138505242 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 07 November 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction 1 Bion and the sublime: the origins of an aesthetic paradigm 2 On sublimation 3 Masochism and its rhythm 4 Whirlpools, rhythms, ideas: aesthetic experience and intersubjective constitution of the individual 5 Hypochondria and the politics of narcissism 6 Dora: The postscripts 7 Where does the reality principle begin? The work of margins in Freud’s ""Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning"" 8 Truth as immediacy and unison: a new common ground in psychoanalysis? Commentaries on essays addressing ""Is truth relevant?"""ReviewsAuthor InformationGiuseppe Civitarese, MD, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI). Previous work includes, The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and, as editor, Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reading ‘A Memoir of the Future’. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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