sublimated

We know that the sex energy can be sublimated, that is, raised to a higher power.

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

London would seem to have "sublimated" his love for poetry as opposed to abandoning it.

Poems from the Dan Wichlan Collection 2010

A great deal of sexual energy can, of course, be canalized or "sublimated" into other things: art, music, intense religious faith, and so on.

Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe William Harryman 2009

Beatrice symbolized both earthly love and Christian truth -- the poet's lust became "sublimated," as we would say, into spiritual longing.

Where Have All the Muses Gone? 2009

A great deal of sexual energy can, of course, be canalized or "sublimated" into other things: art, music, intense religious faith, and so on.

Archive 2009-07-19 William Harryman 2009

Information may be inaccessible for a variety of reasons such as simple failure to retrieve, active censorship or "sublimated" into a form which can't be recognised to borrow Freud's terminology

Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008

Information may be inaccessible for a variety of reasons such as simple failure to retrieve, active censorship or "sublimated" into a form which can't be recognised to borrow Freud's terminology

minsky 4: consciousness Bill Kerr 2008

American, sitting there, realizing that it was all in the name of art, and for the heralding of genius -- a kind of sublimated recruiting meeting for the enlistment in the army of expression of personality, or for the saving of the soul of poetry.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Though Hutton inclined to an extremely "high" section of the Church, to what, indeed, might be described as a kind of sublimated sacerdotalism, and Townsend to a Broad Church

The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

A kind of sublimated egotism, he said to himself, after all!

Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885