| Summary: | The notion of sublimation alludes to a deliverance from sexual aims and is related both to the individual “instictual” vicissitudes and the establishment of social ends. For this reason, it has often become a conceptual tool in the service of progressive preconceptions and ideals of various types, anthropological, clinical, aesthetic. It is useful to analyse one of the most disconcerting sides of this Freudian concept, that is the side that relates it to “desexualization” (a desertion, rather than a deviation of sexual aims), binding it to the collective dynamics of idealization and identification. A link that directs its potential, as well as to the field of creation, to the most ambiguous territories of homogeny, integration and belief.
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