Sublimação: laço entre arte e clínica

Abstract

This article departs from my questioning on the clinical vocation of the concept of sublimation and its articulations with the arts. Since Freud, the relationship between psychoanalysis and art is present and it is common that this connection takes place from the concept of sublimation. For this reason, it is important to discern which relations between psychoanalysis and art are legitimate and which are intended only to confirm what is already known, through a distorted use of psychoanalysis. For this, I make use of the difference proposed by Lacan between psychoanalytic treatment and psychoanalytic method, and later work specifically on the concept of sublimation in Lacan. I seek to stress out that the arts are linked mainly to psychoanalysis as a way to expand our clinical approach, since there are artistic productions that show in an almost didactic way how they organize themselves around the empty, thereby alluding to the structure of the subject. Finally, I propose that sublimation in the clinic would be present in two ways: firstly as a result of the analysis which treats jouissance and, on the other hand, as part of the direction of the treatment.