Just googled the name of a cool synthwave song and then this comes up.
This is literally just pseudo-religious drivel made up by a bunch of weird jackoffs in academia applying value judgements to human behaviour using totally subjective, arbitrary points of reference like "socially acceptable", "civilization", and "normal".
All fine and valid if it was a subset of philosophy, but the fact that people take this seriously as a hard science is mind boggling. Postmodern neoliberalism is one hell of a drug.
Sublimation as a theory is fine. People really do subsume and absorb unacceptable impulses and turn that energy into something else. If you desperately want to punch your boss in the face for being an arsehole, you might decide to turn that energy into agitprop to unionize the workplace instead. Turning an unacceptable impulse into an acceptable one (morally at least :knifecat: )
Unfortunately Freud, being Freud, is so sexually horny for his mother that he thinks that everyone else must be too. Not quite making the connection that maybe since he wasn't raised by his mother from birth that he sees her a little differently than everyone else does. Therefore sublimation = step on me, mummy. :panting: