Da pulsão à experiência musical : a sublimação como um caminho

Abstract

This study aims to explore the intersections between psychoanalysis and music. It defines at first the drive, as described by Freud, for it is the starting point for the sublimation process, showing its relationship to psychic representations. Then, it discusses the concept of sublimation, based on the definitions presented by Freud and critical reviewers of post-Freudian authors, especially Jean Laplanche. Finally, the study outlines the connections between the psychoanalytic concepts described and the sonorous universe, pointing out to the opening of meanings and the surpass of the traditional hermeneutics afforded by the compositional process and by listening experience.