Sublimation
Sublimation is an Awareness Reduction Mechanism. Sublimation if the redirection of awareness and energy towards innappropriate targets. For example, an adolescent angry at their father may, because the father is abusive, redirect their anger to weaker children at school.
Other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms
Avoidance, Denial, Displacement, Dissociation, Distortion, Distraction, Diversion, Gaslighting, Intellectualization, Internalization, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation
Notes
Proper expression of negative emotional and/or psychic energies involves proper attachment. Anger at parents should be directed at, and expressed, at parents and not scapegoats. Similarly, the anger and resentment that one experiences as the result of economic exploitation at work should be directed at those who exploit and not one's spouse or children.
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