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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Freud and PhilosophyMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:42:29 AM

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