sublimation

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

I worry about you. You__e good with people, I__e seen it. You like them. But there__ a limit for you._ He opened his mouth to protest but she held up her hand to silence him. __ know. You do care. But inside the framework of a project. Right now it__ your studies. Later it__l be roads and bridges. But people around you__heir lives go on outside the framework. They__e not just tools to your hand, even likable tools. Your life should go on, too. You should have more than roads to live for. Because if something does go wrong, you__l need what you__e feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

It__ so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That__ why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.