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(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

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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,

—p.28 Marx: The Dancer and the Dance (19) by Marshall Berman
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7 years ago


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

—p.74 The Abolitionist—II (69) by Gopal Balakrishnan
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7 years, 4 months ago


In the ideological domain, all production is denied or is sublimated and becomes free ‘creation’.

—p.77 Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago


treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love

on demands for love within social universes

—p.71 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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7 years, 4 months ago