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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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The Importance of Sublimation in Sex

In the book you talk about like a a batter walking up to the plate sort of obsessively fixing his batting gloves or like you know a lot of athletes will show these little weird things they do either shooting a free throw or or up at the line. You talk about that as sort of a form of of sublimation I think is right could you talk about that a little bit to helpYeah yeah yeah so so sublimation means that I create these these things of I mean look you might think of sex as just what are the things that we create like as objects for ourselves and I think we create these little rituals that give them that give ourselves something to value and something to find pleasure

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