来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代社会理论基础第15集》

Well, and another way to do it is

另一种逃避现实的办法就是
sublimation of the instinct

升华自己的本能
to suppress and ennoble

从某种程度上
in some ways these instincts that were--

以此来抑制或使这些本能变得高尚
actually you move into the sphere of fantasies;

实际上就是进入一个假想的领域
you fantasize rather than live out your depressed desires.

去幻想非去实现那些受压抑的欲望
And this is the mechanism of fantasy,

这便是幻想的作用原理
which creates art and science;

这种原理创造了艺术和科学
and the most noble human activities

而且人类最伟大的艺术创作
are actually sublimated unsatisfied desires--right?

实际上升华了未得到满足的欲望
--which came from the ego--came from the id;

这种创作源于自我和本我
the ego confronted with reality and then suppressed it,

自我面对随后抑制现实