Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian concept bound up with a much wider history of philosophical and literary reflection.

Luke Thurston is Director of the David Jones Centre at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Literary Ghosts from the Victorians toModernism (2012), the co-editor (with Scott Brewster) of TheRoutledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2018) and the translator of Jean Laplanche’s The Unfinished Copernican Revolution (2020).