Sublimation (Ebook: PDF)

Unlike the other beasts of the garden, human beings learn to control their sexual and aggressive motions: to distinguish between parents, sexual partners and friends; to acquire a sense of the beautiful and the sublime. Some also learn how to channel this dynamism into the making of beautiful objects. Freud suggested various mechanisms to explain how these capacities, which are the foundation of c…

Sublimation

Unlike the other beasts of the garden, human beings learn to control their sexual and aggressive motions: to distinguish between parents, sexual partners and friends; to acquire a sense of the beautiful and the sublime. Some also learn how to channel this dynamism into the making of beautiful objects. Freud suggested various mechanisms to explain how these capacities, which are the foundation of c…