Sublimation (psychology)
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In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly result
Sigmund Freud, 1926
Renoir's Bathers Playing with a Crab, circa 1897
Björn Andrésen in the film adaptation of Death in Venice
Jacques Lacan
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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave annual seminars in Paris from 1952 to 1980 and publi
Sublimation (psychology)
…mystery. Freud has appropriated this concept and usurped it for the sphere of the will and the bourgeois, rationalistic ethos. The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's exposition of sublimation is framed within a discussion about the relationship of psychoanalysis and ethics within the seventh book of his seminars…
Lacan in 1969
Freud's couch, London, 2004