Abstract

SILVA JUNIOR, Nelson da  and  GASPARD, Jean-Luc. The iatrogenesis of sublimation in three cultural moments. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2011, vol.45, n.1, pp. 75-87. ISSN 0486-641X.

Arguing against the general trend of psychoanalysts of idealizing sublimation, we attempt to demonstrate that this was not the position of Freud. To him, sublimation was always related to the etiology of psychic pathologies. However, the modalities of this relation are different, and follow the deep changes that marked his thoughts on culture throughout time. We analyze two types of iatrogenesis of sublimation studied in Freud's work. The first one is related to the excess of requirement of sublimation, its character being contingent to culture, and whose effect would be the current neuroses and psychoneurosis. The second one is related to the drives' defusion, and is of an unavoidable character, and whose effect would be, to Freud, moral masochism. We conclude our work analyzing a third type of iatrogenic effect, related to erogenic masochism, and which is characteristic of current occidental culture.

Keywords : sublimation; idealization of sublimation; the fusion and defusion of drives; masochism.

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