Sublimation
The redirecting of raw drive into work, art, and culture, so that energy is neither denied nor let run wild, but given a higher end.
From Sigmund Freud.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- Sublimatio: What was heavy rises, and becomes spirit.
- Exaltatio: Raising the matter to its highest degree.
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