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OLIVEIRA, Edson Santos de. SUBLIMATION LIMITS AND TRANSITIONAL OBJECT. Reverso [online]. 2023, vol.45, n.86, pp.59-66.  Epub 03-Fev-2025. ISSN 0102-7395.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0102-7395.v45n86.06.

The main purpose of this paper’s reflection written text, sublimation, and transitional objects are connected. This paper took as a basis the article “Creativity and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis” by Joel Birman (2008), which draws attention to the similarities and differences between Winnicott’s concept of transitional object and Freud’s concept of sublimation in some of his texts. Based on this, we propose the hypothesis that the concept of transitional object goes far beyond the occurrence of illusion/disillusion in infants, as suggested by the English psychoanalyst. Our opinion is that this object could be extended to the actions of writing and reading on the grounds that the writer uses this “word play” to denote the transition from its subjectivity to the external reality in the process of literary creation. In this sense, some theorists advocate that writing can be regarded as a successful tool in the process of sublimation. For other scholars, however, this is not always the case. It seems that, supported by Carvalho (2006), who demonstrates that the act of writing could lead to the self-destruction of the writer, some authors would find themselves unable to retain the elasticity of the transitional object, once the text would fail to provide a space of transition between subjectivity and external reality, between the intention behind what they want to express and the limits of language itself in the process of representation. They become nothing but remainders. The writing game becomes stagnant, and there Ise very like lithoid that the creator might just “leave the stage”.

Palavras-chave : Sublimation; Transitional object; Writing; Limits.

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