According to Freud's later works, we do not really feel well or
free within civilization. Our discontent never disappears, and we
shall never become completely reliable members of society. Alcohol
already suffices, Freud tells us, to ruin the fragile architecture
of sublimations. Since 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle, '
sublimation seems to be nothing more than a euphemism for
suppressing the drives. We sublimate because we did not get or were
not allowed to have what we 'actually' wanted. Is sublimation a
mere surrogate or perhaps even the name psychoanalysis found for
'theoria' in the twentieth century? With Freud as its pivot, Goebel
provides an intellectual history of sublimation, which also serves
as an introduction to other key ideas associated with the authors
discussed, such as Schopenhauer's philosophy of music, the will to
power in Nietzsche, the structure of Freudian psychoanalysis,
Adorno's concept of modern art, or Lacanian ethics. In examining
both its prehistory and reception, Goebel argues that sublimation
can be reconsidered as the road toward an individual and social
life beyond discontent.
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