The Sublime in Everyday Life

Using psychoanalytic and aesthetic theories, this book aims to revitalise the sublime by re-evaluating its significance for contemporary life and, in a unique and fascinating endeavour, opens up a space that explores the sublime in the ordinary, everyday and quotidian.

Anastasios Gaitanidis is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at Regent's University London. He is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice and has published several articles and books on psychoanalysis, sociology and culture. Polona Curk works on intersubjective affective influence and mental health. She has published on autonomy, destructiveness and affective equality in intimate relationships, on the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism, and the notion of insight in mental health.

Introduction Anastasios Gaitanidis and Polona Curk 1 Psychoanalytic Fictions of the Creative Sublime Tessa Adams and Anastasios Gaitanidis 2 The Silence of Ajax: Reading Longinus Against Himself Justin Murray 3 The Sublime in the Everyday: How Theatre Crafts Art out of the Ordinary Anna Seymour 4 Ordinary Idolatrous Pleasure and the Fateful Fashioning of an Adolescent Boy Onel Brooks 5 Experiencing the Sublime through Encounters with the Real Joseph Newirth 6 Wisdom through Desire: When Truth Meets Love as a Sublime Event Anastasios Gaitanidis 7 'How Extraordinary That You Should Exist': On Playing and Experience of Truth Polona Curk 8 The Sublime and the Feminine Jouissance: A Fantastic Woman, The Untamed and St Teresa Agnieszka Piotrowska 9 The Lure of Humiliation: Sublime Aspects to Success in the School Mathematics Classroom Girish Jivaji 10 The Sublime in Catch-22 as Bridge between Post-Modern Literature and Psychoanalysis Chris Vlachopoulos 11 The Diogenes Complex: Sublime Living in Irrational Times Daniel Rubinstein