SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 140 Title : Sublimation/Eros and the Muse Author(s): Sheena Blackhall Copyright holder(s): Sheena Blackhall Text Sublimation: 'the physical sexual impulse, or libido, in the narrow sense, can be so transformed into some impulse of higher psychic energy that it ceases to be urgent as a physical need... '(Freud) remarks that artists are often... endowed with a specially powerful capacity for sublimation.'... 'the Italian psychotherapist Assagioli attaches high value to sublimation... artistic creation is deeply but obscurely related to the process.' Ellis, H. 1965: 307-308 Bumbazed, we hear anither famous man Played wi himsel aneth his desk, Rattled his ain tin can. He didna tryst wee quines up Terror's lanes, Nor preen a Voyeur's neb 'gainst windae panes, Nor peddle heroin, tae pyson halflins' veins. His public darg... wis't spylt by yon pursuit? I dinna ken. If Burns hid sublimated aa his groin's dictates, Poems wad hae poored in torrents frae his pen. Salvador Dali aften eese tae craw, He's come afore his canvas. Claimed that he Wis blessed wi supra-creativity A topic wirthy o a PhD. Except maist fowk wad lee... includin me. Sae fit's perversion? Queen, tricked oot as tart? A German peinter chiel, oot tae impress Ejaculated in a public gallery, Caain this 'Seed Bed' an 'Performance Art'. A thochtie avant-guard, I maun confess, Fin Eros lies doon cauldly wi the Muse, Tae prove Libido's Inspiration's fuse. (I've niver seen a cuddy in suspenders I've niver seen a puddock in a basque For sado-masochism, bondage, flashin's The kick-start in humanity's hip-flask) Flesh turned tae wird, the sexual made sublime's The oil in the lamp that gars it shine. This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Information about document and author: Text Text audience General public: Audience size: 100+ Text details Method of composition: Handwritten Word count: 274 Text medium Book: Text publication details Published: Publisher: Finavon Press Publication year: 2000 Place of publication: Angus ISBN/ISSN: 0952881373 Text type Poem/song/ballad: Author Author details Author id: 112 Forenames: Sheena Surname: Blackhall Gender: Female Decade of birth: 1940 Educational attainment: University Age left school: 16 Upbringing/religious beliefs: Brought up Protestant, now Buddhist Occupation: Writer and supply teacher Place of birth: Aberdeen Region of birth: Aberdeen Birthplace CSD dialect area: Abd Country of birth: Scotland Place of residence: Aberdeen Region of residence: Aberdeen Residence CSD dialect area: Abd Country of residence: Scotland Father's occupation: Manager of Deeside Omnibus Service Father's place of birth: Aboyne Father's region of birth: Aberdeen Father's birthplace CSD dialect area: Abd Father's country of birth: Scotland Mother's occupation: Private Secretary Mother's place of birth: Aberdeen Mother's region of birth: Aberdeen Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: Abd Mother's country of birth: Scotland Languages: Language: English Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Language: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Elementary. Gaelic choir. Poetry. Language: Scots Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: