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Psychoanalysis. Of an instinctual impulse: that has been diverted or modified into a socially more acceptable interest or activity.
Psychoanalysis. Of, relating to, or characterized by sublimation (sublimation, n. 5a).
Subcategories:
— overinhibited (1)
— characterized by retreat (1)
— relating to regression (1)
— tending to do the opposite (1)
— tending to repress (2)
— kept out of conscious mind (2)
— affecting relationships (1)
— replacing subjectivity (1)