(verb) to divert the expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable
Marx achieved a psychological synthesis that enabled him to come into his own [...] it enabled him to resolve the problem of his identity. His genius enabled him to sublimate his personal dialectic into a world perspective,
Later solutions would entail a more radical break with the premises of these earlier histories of civil society, and not just with their mystified Hegelian sublimations
In the ideological domain, all production is denied or is sublimated and becomes free ‘creation’.
treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love
on demands for love within social universes