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ON SUBLIMATION CONTROVERSIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS SERIES IPA Publications Committee Gennaro Saragnano (Rome), Chair and General Editor; Leticia Glocer Fiorini (Buenos Aires), Consultant; Samuel Arbiser (Buenos Aires), Paulo Cesar Sandler (São Paulo); Christian Seulin (Lyon); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal); Gail S. Reed (New York); Rhoda Bawdekar (London), ex-officio as Publications Officer; Paul Crake (London), ex-officio as IPA Executive Director Other titles in the Series Identity, Gender, & Sexuality: 150 Years After Freud edited by Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, & Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber The Experience of Time: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini & Jorge Canestri Transvestism, Transsexualism in the Psychoanalytic Dimension edited by Giovanna Ambrosio Clinical and Theoretical Aspects of Perversion: The Illusory Bond edited by Juan Pablo Jimenez & Rodolfo Moguillansky What do Our Terms Mean?: Explorations using Psychoanalytic Theories and Concepts Anne Hayman ON SUBLIMATION A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment Rossella Valdrè Translated by Flora Capostagno and Caroline Williamson Series Editor Gennaro Saragnano Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series First published in 2014 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2014 by Rossella Valdrè The right of Rossella Valdrè to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-028-4 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix CONTROVERSIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS SERIES xi INTRODUCTION xiii Francesco Conrotto CHAPTER ONE Has sublimation disappeared? The destiny of a fundamental concept 1 CHAPTER TWO History of the concept of sublimation, from Freud to the present day: a brief literary review 17 CHAPTER THREE Sublimation in psychoanalytic theory 41 v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Sublimation in treatment: the end-analysis and the “transformation of the aim” 59 CHAPTER FIVE Sublimation and creativity 79 CHAPTER SIX The impossible desire: great sublimation in art—Leonardo da Vinci according to Freud and Emily Dickinson 93 CHAPTER SEVEN Sublimation in the postmodern era: a vanishing idea or a different form of expression? 111 CONCLUSION 131 REFERENCES 139 INDEX 151 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My sincere thanks to everyone who has helped me along the path to the publication of this book. Firstly, all the members of the Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association who accepted my proposal, in particular Gennaro Saragnano for his support and for being the first to tell me the good news. Thank you to my patient translators, Flora Capostagno and Caroline Williamson, for their invaluable work. I am also indebted to Rhoda Bawdekar, the IPA publication officer at Broomhills, for her hard work and tenacity during the editing process, and to Stefano Bolognini and Evelyne Sechaud for their endorsements. vii ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rossella Valdrè is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a member of the SPI (Società Psicoanalitica Italiana) and the IPA (International Psychoanalytical Association). A graduate of the University of Genoa, she trained in Genoa and then in Milan. After her early years in insti- tutional work, in recent years she has concentrated on her private psy- choanalytical practice while she is also a supervisor in institutional environments and a court-appointed expert for the juvenile courts. For some years now she has been teaching psychoanalytic theory at the Faculty of Psychology of Genoa University. Her interest in cinema and psychoanalysis has led to the publication of film reviews (www. spiweb.it) and the presentation of films in different psychoanalytic centres. She is author of the book La lingua sognata della realtà. Cinema e psicoanalisi nell’esplorazione della contemporaneità (The dream language of reality. Cinema and psychoanalysis in the exploration of contempora- neity, published by Antigone, 2013). In addition to cinema, her fields of interest include the extension of psychoanalysis into the world of cul- ture, art, literature, and society, always connecting and interpreting in ix
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