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In this groundbreaking work, Joan Copjec investigates the concept of sublimation as a central mechanism in psychoanalytic theory and ethics. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, she argues that sublimation is not merely a psychological defense mechanism but a fundamental ethical process that structures human desire and creativity.
Copjec challenges traditional feminist critiques that locate woman as a figure of lack or absence, instead proposing that sublimation reveals how ethics emerges through the confrontation with the impossible and the real. The book engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural theory to rethink the relationship between desire, ethics, and representation.
Through rigorous theoretical analysis, Copjec demonstrates how sublimation operates across symbolic, imaginary, and real registers, offering new insights into aesthetic experience, ethical obligation, and the nature of human subjectivity beyond gender binaries.
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