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Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths

Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths

Russell, Jared

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PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032153806
ISBN13: 9781032153803
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2021
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book integrates thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global consumer marketplace.

Beginning with an analysis of the fate of the concept of sublimation in Freud's work, and its relationship to the elaboration of the concept of the superego in 1923, Jared Russell examines how these concepts provide a lever for integrating psychoanalytic thinking with topics of urgent social concern, beyond the critique of ideology. Taking up topics such as the experience of time, addiction to consumption, and the general consequences of the insinuation of digital technologies at increasingly earlier stages in human development--and thinking these through the lens of what the clinical practice of psychoanalysis teaches us about intimate human relatedness--the book addresses how a philosophically oriented approach to psychoanalysis can illuminate our response to the problems of everyday life under conditions of late capitalism. Drawing on a diverse range of authors such as Freud, Heidegger, Hans Loewald, Christopher Bollas, Lacan, Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler, it is argued that the concepts of sublimation and of the superego must be reinvented with regard to both clinical and critical discourse today if psychoanalysis is to remain relevant to the major issues we face, both individually and collectively, in the twenty-first century.

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