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We were concerned at the start of the project reported in this paper with the establishment of greater precision in the definition of sublimation. The energy-transformation theory of sublimation was rejected as being inadequate, and it was suggested that in order to clarify the relation of sublimation to the instinctual drives and to the ego, we should differentiate between the following:
1The drive tensions, sexual or aggressive, which are reduced by means of the ego apparatuses. Drive tension is the "demand for work" imposed on these apparatuses.