Sublimation in psychology

Sublimation a mature type of defense mechanism, a sign of maturity and civilization. According to Sigmund Freud sublimation.is the process of transforming libido into “socially useful” achievements, including artistic, cultural, and intellectual pursuits. He defined sublimation as the process of deflecting sexual instincts into acts of higher social valuation. He also concluded that sublimation could be a conflict between the need for satisfaction and the need for security without  awareness.In other words is a defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behaviors, often resulting in positive outcomes.  This process allows individuals to channel unwanted feelings, such as anger or anxiety, into constructive activities like art or sports, promoting emotional well-being.
Carl Jung
Sexual sublimation is, however, ill-defined[13] and comes with the caveats that it rarely happens in practice, that many outcomes attributed to it are actually the results of other motivations, and that it is most definitely not some quasi-physical transfer of some sort of “sexual energy” in the modern psychoanalytical view but rather an internal thought process
In the same article, Jung went on to suggest that unconscious processes became dangerous only to the extent that people repress them. The more people come to assimilate and recognize the unconscious, the less of a danger it becomes. In this view sublimation requires not repression of drives through will, but acknowledgement of the creativity of unconscious processes and a learning of how to work with them.