Giuseppe Civitarese

The Hour of Birth (eBook, PDF)

Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.

Through the lens of a radically intersubjective psychoanalytic theory, Civitarese reinvents the Freudian notion of sublimation. He theorises that the aesthetic of the sublime reflects the internal process of establishing a space of thought through the gradual differentiation of subject and object. Supported by numerous artworks by contemporary artists - from Serra to Kapoor, and Wei to Kiefer - the volume attends to questions such as: How does the psyche come into being? Why can beauty be considered necessary for life? How does what we experience as "simply" beautiful differ from the aesthetic experience of what is called "sublime"? In this way, Civitarese forges a conceptual tool that enables readers to weave together psychoanalytic theory and aesthetics.

Drawing on a deep understanding of both the latest psychoanalytic thinking and artistic practices, this book will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in art and questions of psychic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040371350
• Artikelnr.: 75561010

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He lives and is in private practice, in Pavia, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Imminence of the Object 2. A Success Story 3. The Sublime Now 4. The
Snake in the Maze 5. A Space Full of Darkness 6. The River-God of Blood 7.
Savage Beauty 8. Heavenly Palaces 9. Can't Help Myself 10. Sublimation
Reinvented 11. The Matter of Time 12. The Abject Body 13. Oh Life, Begun in
a Bloody Flow