A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, by which instinctual drives, consciously unacceptable, are diverted into personally and socially acceptable channels.
The physical process by which a substance passes directly from the solid state to the vapor or gas state, such as the evaporation of ice during freeze-drying.
A defense mechanism that involves the acceptance of a substitute goal that provides a socially acceptable outlet of expression, most typically associated with an undesirable sexual urge.
A psychological process in which violent emotions which would otherwise be expressed in antisocial behaviour are directed into actions which are socially acceptable.
Replacement of a socially unacceptable means of satisfying desires by means that are socially acceptable, especially the diversion of components of the sex drive to nonsexual goals.
The unconscious diversion of unacceptable or repressed instinctual drives into a channel that is personally or socially permissible. For example, a person who channeled rage at a childhood sexual abuser into a career as a social worker helping children would be practicing sublimation. Sublimation, one of the defense mechanisms, is an automatic, unconscious psychological process that protects a person against anxiety or impulsive actions in response to stress and internal emotional conflict.
The replacement of socially undesirable means of gratifying motives or desires by means that are socially acceptable.
The conversion of a solid substance into a vapour and its recondenzation. The term is also used in a mental sense for the process of converting instinctive sexual desires to new aims and objects devoid of sexual significance.
The altering of the state of a gas or solid without first changing it into a liquid.
In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious mechanism through which primal and unacceptable impulses are channeled into behaviors that are deemed socially acceptable.
The process of turning a solid into vapor and then condensing it back.
In psychiatry, it’s an unconscious mental mechanism where unwanted basic desires are channeled into socially acceptable actions. Freud described it as redirecting sexual energies towards non-sexual goals and purposes.