TY - BOOK ID - 77924080 TI - On sublimation : a path to the destiny of desire, theory, and treatment AU - Valdre, Rossella AU - Capostagno, Flora AU - Williamson, Caroline AU - Saragnano, Gennaro PY - 2018 SN - 0367102137 0429478046 1782412409 9781782412403 9780429478048 1306549280 9781306549288 9781781813720 1781813728 9781782200284 1782200282 0429902816 042991704X PB - Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Sublimation (Psychology) KW - Sublimation KW - Defense mechanisms (Psychology) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77924080 AB - 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in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse: so is it an outdated concept, an endangered species?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 implicit in theory that it is not necessary to discuss it any more? It is the prevailing opinion of the author that sublimation is nowadays expressed differently and has undergone a sort of anthropological mutation, as has happened to several Freudian concepts with the changing historical and cultural contexts. ER -