Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One: Theory

1| Simply Sublime? Lacan, Jung, and the Red Book

Paul Bishop

2| Sublime Anxiety

Bernard Burgoyne

3| The Complex Pleasure of the Sublime

Ann Casement

4 | Jung, the Sublime and Apophatic Mysticism in Psyche and Art

John Dourley

5| The Subjective Sublime: Like a Diamond?

Phil Goss

6 | The Blazing Sublime: Opportunity for the Integration of Otherness

Nami Lee

7 | The Hermetic Subtle Body and the Sublime in Jung and Lacan

Albert Morell

8 | Lacan’s Clinical Artistry: On Sublimation, Sublation and the Sublime

Dany Nobus

9 | A Crumpled Note or Purloined Letter? Sublime and Feminine Creativity in Destruction—Jung and Lacan

Susan Rowland

Section Two: Culture

10 | The Object of Victor Frankenstein’s Desire

Lionel Bailly 11 | The Soviet Antigones: The Poets versus the State

Helena Bassil-Morozow

12 | Thunder, Perfect Mind: Entering the Land of the Sublime

Isabelle De Armond

13 | Unconscious Processes, Instrumental Music and the Experience of the Sublime: An Exploration through Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

Giorgio Giaccardi

14 | The Sinthome and the Work of Imre Kertész

Sharon Green

15 | Expressing the Inexpressible: Art as a Challenge to its Own Object

Nihan Kaya 16 | The ‘Nibelungenlied’: A Germanic Myth and the Sublime

Arthur Neisser

17 | James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and Paleo-Postmodernism: A Lacanian-Jungian Reading

Catriona Ryan

18 | Apostolic Actuality: David Jones and Sublimation

Luke Thurston

About the Author

Ann Casement LP is a Professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology, China; a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, where she served on its Executive and Ethics Committees; and a senior member of the BJAA. She lectures worldwide and has published extensively, including Who Owns Psychoanalysis, which was nominated for the Gradiva Award in 2005, and contributes to The Economist and international psychoanalytical journals.

Phil Goss is Associate Professor and Director of Counselling and Psychotherapy at Warwick University, UK. He is the author of Jung: A Complete Introduction (2015) and Men, Women and Relationships: A Post-Jungian Approach (2010) and has published on a range of topics from a Jungian perspective, including education and learning difficulties, gender and spirituality.

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, UK, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and Former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, most recently The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’ (2017).

Reviews

"It seems so obvious, but it has taken many decades before a serious scholarly engagement between Lacan and Jung could take place. This book conducts such an important and fraught encounter, by focusing on the idea of the sublime, and illuminating the convergences and differences this concept reveals in each. With the continuing publication and translation of Lacan’s Seminars, along with the publication of Jung’s The Red Book, both thinkers continue to offer untapped resources for understanding what psychoanalysis is and can be. Excellent and wide-ranging, rich in theoretical and cultural-artistic implications, this volume is not to be missed!"Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USA"'Jung and Lacan'? This ground-breaking and brilliant book answers the question with a resounding YES. The notion of the sublime has been gently eased into place as a bridge between these two traditions and is the clear result of years of thinking by the skilled editors and erudite contributors. In addition, not to put too fine a point on it, there has been less apparent but much-needed professional and academic agitation and persuasion on their part. Fields that will benefit from an engagement with the book include clinical work, politics, art and creativity, the history of ideas, and contemporary spiritualities."Andrew Samuels, Former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK; author of Jung and the Post-Jungians

"It seems so obvious, but it has taken many decades before a serious scholarly engagement between Lacan and Jung could take place. This book conducts such an important and fraught encounter, by focusing on the idea of the sublime, and illuminating the convergences and differences this concept reveals in each. With the continuing publication and translation of Lacan’s Seminars, along with the publication of Jung’s The Red Book, both thinkers continue to offer untapped resources for understanding what psychoanalysis is and can be. Excellent and wide-ranging, rich in theoretical and cultural-artistic implications, this volume is not to be missed!"Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USA"'Jung and Lacan'? This ground-breaking and brilliant book answers the question with a resounding YES. The notion of the sublime has been gently eased into place as a bridge between these two traditions and is the clear result of years of thinking by the skilled editors and erudite contributors. In addition, not to put too fine a point on it, there has been less apparent but much-needed professional and academic agitation and persuasion on their part. Fields that will benefit from an engagement with the book include clinical work, politics, art and creativity, the history of ideas, and contemporary spiritualities."Andrew Samuels, Former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK; author of Jung and the Post-Jungians