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Sublimation Creates Sublime Value
- Sublimation transforms base desires into aesthetic experiences rather than merely displacing them.
- Psychoanalysis views sublimation as raising ordinary objects to the dignity of something sublime, especially in art.
Lacan's Sublimation and Artistic Form
- Lacan argues sublimation is prerequisite to desire, not just a substitution for it.
- Artistic form frames the sublimated object, giving the work of art its value and affective power.
Artist, Audience, and Object Triangle
- Psychoanalytic aesthetics centers on a triangular relation between artist, audience, and object.
- Sublimation and shared psychic phenomena create aesthetic value that art audiences recognize collectively.