Author : Volney Patrick Gay
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791411834
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (118 download)
Book Synopsis Freud on Sublimation by : Volney Patrick Gay
Download or read book Freud on Sublimation written by Volney Patrick Gay and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.