caa a22 4500 463165497 CHVBK 20180406164800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-007-9068-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-007-9068-z Beardsworth Sara Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 62901-4505, Carbondale, IL, USA aut From nature in love: The problem of subjectivity in Adorno and Freudian psychoanalysis [Elektronische Daten] [Sara Beardsworth] This paper investigates the potential of the concept of sublimation for thinking subjectivity at the intersection of psychoanalysis and critical theory. I first rehearse a recent argument by Whitebook that Freud's notion of sublimation presents a nonviolent integration and expansion of the ego, which can mediate the modern dichotomy between the rational subject and nonrational impulse and desire. On this view, sublimation turns subjectivity into a site of possibility in the context of modern, rationalized thought and society. I then argue that the concept of sublimation offered to critical theory in this form is insufficiently developed. Both Freud and Adorno analyze a deep-seated destructiveness of the modern subject, which turns up right at the heart of attempts to mediate the dichotomies of rationalized modernity. What is needed to counter this problem is a theory of love in which love is not separated from, but, rather, correlated with drive and desire, and can thereby get on a level with the unconscious or unacknowledged, impulsive nature of death-bearing subjectivity in enlightened modernity. A central conception in Kristeva's development of Freudian psychoanalysis, the idea of transference love, delivers such a theory and thereby develops the concept of sublimation in the way that is needed at the intersection of psychoanalysis and critical theory. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Adorno nationallicence Freud nationallicence Kristevan nationallicence Sublimation nationallicence Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/4(2007-12-01), 365-387 1387-2842 40:4<365 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9068-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9068-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Beardsworth Sara Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 62901-4505, Carbondale, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/4(2007-12-01), 365-387 1387-2842 40:4<365 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer