This ground-breaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung/Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime and explores similarities and differences between Jungian and Lacanian thinking on key topics such as language/linguistics, literature, religion, self/subject, science, mathematics, and philosophy.

Ann Casement LP is a Professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology, China; a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, where she served on its Executive and Ethics Committees; and a senior member of the BJAA. She lectures worldwide and has published extensively, including Who Owns Psychoanalysis, which was nominated for the Gradiva Award in 2005, and contributes to The Economist and international psychoanalytical journals.

Phil Goss is Associate Professor and Director of Counselling and Psychotherapy at Warwick University, UK. He is the author of Jung: A Complete Introduction (2015) and Men, Women and Relationships: A Post-Jungian Approach (2010) and has published on a range of topics from a Jungian perspective, including education and learning difficulties, gender and spirituality.

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, UK, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and Former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, most recently The Law of Desire: On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade' (2017).

Introduction

Section One: Theory

1| Simply Sublime? Lacan, Jung, and the Red Book

Paul Bishop

2| Sublime Anxiety

Bernard Burgoyne

3| The Complex Pleasure of the Sublime

Ann Casement

4 | Jung, the Sublime and Apophatic Mysticism in Psyche and Art

John Dourley

5| The Subjective Sublime: Like a Diamond?

Phil Goss

6 | The Blazing Sublime: Opportunity for the Integration of Otherness

Nami Lee

7 | The Hermetic Subtle Body and the Sublime in Jung and Lacan

Albert Morell

8 | Lacan's Clinical Artistry: On Sublimation, Sublation and the Sublime

Dany Nobus

9 | A Crumpled Note or Purloined Letter? Sublime and Feminine Creativity in Destruction-Jung and Lacan

Susan Rowland

Section Two: Culture

10 | The Object of Victor Frankenstein's Desire

Lionel Bailly 11 | The Soviet Antigones: The Poets versus the State

Helena Bassil-Morozow

12 | Thunder, Perfect Mind: Entering the Land of the Sublime

Isabelle De Armond

13 | Unconscious Processes, Instrumental Music and the Experience of the Sublime: An Exploration through Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

Giorgio Giaccardi

14 | The Sinthome and the Work of Imre Kertész

Sharon Green

15 | Expressing the Inexpressible: Art as a Challenge to its Own Object

Nihan Kaya 16 | The 'Nibelungenlied': A Germanic Myth and the Sublime

Arthur Neisser

17 | James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Paleo-Postmodernism: A Lacanian-Jungian Reading

Catriona Ryan

18 | Apostolic Actuality: David Jones and Sublimation

Luke Thurston