Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis

by Giuseppe Civitarese

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138505250
• ISBN13: 9781138505254
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"