An investigation into the essence of what makes us human. Psychoanalysis and art dialogue on an equal level, revealing each other mutually. How is the psyche born? What is the role of beauty? Why can it be said that beauty is necessary for life? What we experience as "simply" beautiful in what differs from the aesthetic experience that we define as sublime? Sublime is the single word that organizes all the materials of the book: the ancient treatise on rhetoric that suggests to the authors how to reach the highest peaks of artistic expression, the romantic aesthetic that is inspired by it, the Freudian concept of sublimation as a psychoanalytic theory of art, the examples of the contemporary sublime: from Serra to Kapoor, from McQueen to Kiefer. Art that is inspired by the sublime, with its choice of themes and forms, is nothing more than the representation of the infant's primary relationship with the object.