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"Well, and another way to do it is sublimation — of the instinct — to suppress and ennoble in some ways these instincts that were — actually you move into the sphere of fantasies; you fantasize rather than live out your depressed desires. And this is the mechanism of fantasy, which creates art and science; and the most noble human activities are actually sublimated unsatisfied desires —  which came from the ego — came from the id; the ego confronted with reality and then suppressed it, and then was sublimated into these higher elements."

© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
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