sublimation

• “Although the term sublimation pertains to the conversion of both solid directly to gas and its reverse… gas directly to solid, some people call the latter process deposition.”

  Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit

• ““To chemists, sublimation is the process by which matter changes from a solid state to a vapor without first melting.”

  Dry Ice by Stephen White: Questions

• “Its sublimation is slow, and can be reduced; I cannot comment on specifics, but Wikibooks notes the following: "But if it must be stored, it is recommended that it is stored under water and in a container without a cap with threads, as opening it could result in an explosion from crystalized [sic] acetone peroxide.”

  Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives

• “Since in Winston's case the sublimation is imperfect, the distorted sexuality becomes unstable in its effects.”

  The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “During this "latent period" a part of these sexual energies is separated from the sexual aim and applied to cultural and social ends, a process which Freud has designated by the name sublimation as important for culture, history and the individual.”

  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry

• “It is separated from them by a process called sublimation, which is something similar to distillation.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “Neal Gabler, the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, told me that Jewish revenge fantasies aren’t entirely alien to the movie industry, but they’ve always been exercises in sublimation, Superman being only the most obvious.”

  Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger

• “This direct transformation of a solid into a gas is called sublimation, and is the cause of that deterioration in foods known as “freezer burn,” in which crystalline water evaporates into the freezer’s cold, dry air.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “As such, they offer a perfect example of what Sigmund Freud called sublimation, the indirect expression of libido, or the channeling of sexual energy into civilized form.”

  Simon & Schuster: BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES

• “Freud is helpful here to psychoanalyze the McCain suspension of the campaign statement: It is called sublimation with relation to the desire of the conservative base of the party, in which he masked his desire to fail the bill by articulating the opposite in public, something acceptable in appearance but coded to be read as the directive in reversal.”

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