Freud's argument is that all great artists are wounded, distorted psyches compensating for psychic defects by projecting beautiful things (like the Sistine Chapel); while an argument can be made for this, it is reductive and not clear that all art is sublimation of sexual desires.
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“it is not at all clear that that's what all art is sublimation of sexual desires”
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