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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Beyond Discontent
• Author: Eckart Goebel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9781441178336
• ISBN: 1441178333
• ID: 04482104
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 140 × 215 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 2012

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