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Lacan and Freud's Sublimation
In seminar seven he has a few examples of sublimation and he has mentioned the one that I mentioned in the chapter itself which is when he talks about the way in which Cezanne the painter paints apples. He says an apple painted by Cezanne is never just an apple there's always a kind of a sliver of sublimity that is painted by him specifically. This was exactly a mill nurse method of worldly transcendence for Lacan, she was always looking for that little spark of the sublime in mundane object. She was constantly raising mundane objects to the dignity of the thing with the capital T.