Sublimation - Showa

Japanese: 昇華 - しょうか
Sublimation - Showa
〘noun〙① When a solid becomes gas directly without becoming liquid. It also refers to a gas becoming solid again. At room temperature, it is found in dry ice, camphor, etc. *From Shamitsu Kaisoku (1837-47), "Sulfur is <omitted>. When heated in a covered container, it sublimates at 560 degrees." ② The unconscious conversion of lower-level desires (sexual energy) into higher-level artistic or religious activities. *Modern View of Love (1922), from <Kuriyakawa Hakuson>, 4: "The psychology of all such purifying transferences is <omitted>, and scholars may give it a name, perhaps even calling it sublimation." ③ When things are elevated to a more noble level, or become more universal or abstract. *Don Quixote (1944), from <Nakamura Mitsuo>, 2: "The humor in all first-rate comedies is always sublimated to this extent."

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Japanese:
〘名〙① 固体が液体にならないで、直接気体になること。また、気体から再び固体になることもいう。常温では、ドライアイス、樟脳などにみられる。※舎密開宗(1837‐47)内「硫黄は〈略〉。蓋器に煆ば五百六十度の熱を以て昇華す」② 低位の欲望(性的エネルギー)が高位の芸術的活動、宗教活動などに無意識的に置換されること。※近代の恋愛観(1922)〈厨川白村〉四「すべてかういふ浄化転移の心理は、〈略〉学者は之に名を附けて昇華作用(サブリメイション)とでも云ふだらうが」③ 物事が一段と高尚な域に高められたり、より普遍的・抽象的なものになったりすること。※ドン・キホーテ(1944)〈中村光夫〉二「すべて一流の喜劇の滑稽は必ずここまで昇華されている」

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