https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) Popularised as an idea by Freud, sublimation is t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) Popularised as an idea by Freud, sublimation is the act of repressing and redirecting baser instincts into something "healthy" in the view of society -- often as a defence mechanisim. Sexual sublimation is redirecting sexual energies and desires into other activites, usually identified as creative. I am making no claims about the correctness of this, but it lives on in popular understandings of the mind.