Sublimation of death and sublimation of life

Psychoanalytical psychosomatics

Abstract

The paradox of sublimation as one of the fates of drives is noted in Freud's works. He distinguishes "primordial erotic sublimation" in the service of art. P. Marty distinguished between the sublimation of life and the sublimation of death. In the cited article Marilia Eisenstein mentions the case of a patient who wanted to give up her marriage to a loved one because of psychoanalysis, and draws attention to the fact that psychoanalysis can also become a sublimation of death.