The Importance of Idealization and Sublimation

Freud says we have to distinguish clearly between idealization and sublimation. For Freud in love, specifically, the masculine position of love, we idealize the loved object. We've put the pussy on a pedestal and now the pedestal is kicked out from under it. And I think that with melancholy, Freud even himself says part of the rage, part of the revenge,. Part of the sadism is, in its way, a way of expending that extra energy That's kind of caught in the flux.