Gift of Sublimation

Nathan Carlin is Associate Professor in the McGovern Centre for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Medical School. He is the author or co-author of four previous books, including Religious Mourning (Wipf & Stock, 2014). Donald Capps is Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Psychology and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including several also published by The Lutterworth Press: At Home in the World (2013), The Resourceful Self (2015) and Still Growing (2015).

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 - The Liberating Effects of Sublimation 1 Freud's Idea of Sublimation 2 King James and the Sublimation of Aggression 3 Methuselah and the Sublimation of Envy Part 2 - Moral, Sexual, and Religious Issues 4 Masturbation, Homosexuality, and Moral Disapproval 5 Eleven Gay Men: A Case of Unexceptional Sublimation 6 God's Gender Confusion and Sexuality in the Church Bibliography Index

This is an intriguing, important, and timely book on multiple masculinities depicted through the prism of the concept of sublimation. Carlin and Capps, using biblical and contemporary examples, invite the reader toward a more complex, flexible, and deeper understanding of the varied ways men sublimate their erotic desires with other men and women. Indeed, the book itself is an illustration of the sublimation of sexual instincts, revealed in the shared serious and playful scholarship and friendship of these authors.