Sentence examples for desublimation from inspiring English sources

So CBS wanted an interview with its author — no small ambition, considering that One-Dimensional Man's key concepts were expressed in such terms as "repressive desublimation".

In the field of World Cup studies, it is axiomatic that the competition itself and its manifold ancillary cultural products (songs especially) display what Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse called repressive desublimation.

It becomes a symbol of what Herbert Marcuse called "repressive desublimation," which reroutes unruly and rebellious instinctual energies into politically harmless sybaritic indulgence, escapist entertainment and spiritual delusion.

On the other side are pornographers, comedians and other champions of desublimation, many of them worshippers at the shrine of Lenny Bruce, whose fearlessness made the comedy clubs of America into what Bill Maher calls "the freest free speech zone" in the nation.