Sublimation (Ebook: PDF)
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UK Publication September 2009
ISBN 1840464518
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Unlike the other beasts of the garden, human beings learn to control their sexual and aggressive motions: to distinguish between parents, sexual partners and friends; to acquire a sense of the beautiful and the sublime. Some also learn how to channel this dynamism into the making of beautiful objects. Freud suggested various mechanisms to explain how these capacities, which are the foundation of culture and civilisation, are developed. Principal among these is sublimation.
Kalu Singh introduces this mechanism and related themes and argues for a sense of the moral sublime as the zenith of human development.
Kalu Singh works as a Civil Servant and Sessional Counsellor in a University Service, and is the author of Guilt, also in this series.
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'A brilliantly alive popular account'
Oliver James on Guilt, in the Guardian Books of the Year
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Kalu Singh works as a Civil Servant and Sessional Counsellor in a University Service.
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