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Beyond Discontent

'Sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan

By: Eckart Goebel

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Beyond Discontent

'Sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan

By: Eckart Goebel

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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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441127895

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Ambition

An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise

By: Eckart Goebel

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An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise

By: Eckart Goebel

We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.

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1501383868

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9781501383861

Social, Economic and Cultural Aspects in the Dynamic Changing Process of Old Industrial Regions

Ruhr District (Germany), Upper Silesia (Poland), Ostrava Region (Czech Republic)

By: Karl Eckart

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Social, Economic and Cultural Aspects in the Dynamic Changing Process of Old Industrial Regions

Ruhr District (Germany), Upper Silesia (Poland), Ostrava Region (Czech Republic)

By: Karl Eckart

In the old industrial regions of the Ruhr District (Germany), Upper Silesia (Poland) and the Ostrava Region (Czech Republic), coal as well as iron and steel have been the economic basis for many decades. In the Ruhr District important changes already started at the end of the 1950s. In Upper Silesia and in the Ostrava Region, however, these processes started at the end of the 1980s together with the transformation of the economic and social system in these countries. Because of high unemployment, steps are taken to modernize the economy and to retrain employees. All three regions cannot develop out of their own strength, but there are programmes in order to support this process.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825867846

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9783825867843

Ambition

An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise

By: Eckart Goebel

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An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise

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Beyond Discontent

'Sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan

By: Eckart Goebel

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'Sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan

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Beyond Discontent

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Ambition

Ambition

Social, Economic and Cultural Aspects in the Dynamic Changing Process of Old Industrial Regions

Social, Economic and Cultural Aspects in the Dynamic Changing Process of Old Industrial Regions

Ambition

Ambition

Beyond Discontent

Beyond Discontent

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