Sublime Subjects

Sublime Subjects
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 310
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351379595
ISBN-13 : 1351379593
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sublime Subjects by : Giuseppe Civitarese

Download or read book Sublime Subjects written by Giuseppe Civitarese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sublime 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.


Sublime Subjects Related Books

Sublime Subjects
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sublime 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 ps
Original Poems, Chiefly on Sublime Subjects
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Samuel Pattison
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1801 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Timothy M. Costelloe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.
The Sublime in Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 713
Authors: James I. Porter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
The Political Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael J. Shapiro
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away fro