Beyond discontent
Subtitle: 'sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan
By: Eckart Goebel ; translated by James C. Wagner
Contributors: Wagner, James C.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781441178336; 9781441113917
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature; Intellectual life; German literature; History and criticism; Sublimation (Psychology) in literature; History
Work titles: Jenseits des Unbehagens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trilogy of passion: Goethe as paradigm and provocation; title: The sound of psychoanalysis: Arthur Schopenhauer; title: Transfigured physis: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Self-control: Sigmund Freud; title: Walking the dog: creaturely transcendence in Thomas Mann; title: The sublimation of nature: Theodor W. Adorno; title: Das ding: Jacques Lacan's Luther.