Meaning of desublimate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.
   intransitive
2. Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.
   transitive

Examples

“However, the question⟳ remains as to why the text does not desublimate the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race⟳, and nation with the same sort⟳ of scrupulous rigor that it demystifies the economic and social ideology of the form⟳.”

“The practice of pornography teaches its subjects to desublimate the sensuous apprehension.”

“When we desublimate the things we have⟳ repressed, we create⟳ a space in which we feel⟳ liberated to be as monstrous as we wish⟳.”

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