Between Repression and Sublimation

The ascetic monk is often depicted as the opposite of a modern person. Mistrusting pleasure and preaching self-denial, the monk is readily described as repressed, self-persecutory, and obsessed with sin and abstinence. This essay analyzes Freud's attempt to move beyond the ascetic devaluing of pleasure. In Freud's early works, the cenobitic monk is a remnant of a past we have outgrown. Gradually, however, Freud abandoned this pejorative image. Looking at the modern history of psyche and self from the perspective of asceticism allows us to deepen our understanding of that history

Asceticism · Pejorative · Pleasure · Psyche · Sublimation (psychology) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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