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By 'sublimation' Freud originally denoted the changes that occur as the child becomes a civilized adult and the energy of repressed pregenital impulses is redirected to nonsexual aims of higher social character. Various papers after the Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality indicate the possibility that genital sexuality can also be sublimated. Sublimation is described as a special blending of ego instincts and sexuality, a compounding that is useful, unlike the comparable process whereby a neurotic symptom is created. With the elaboration of the dual theory of instinct, further complications appeared. Primary ego activities are defined as sublimations of primarily repressed archaic aggressive energies, in contrast with secondary sublimations (in Freud's sense) bound up with secondary repression. Sexual libido detached from self-preservative oral or anal libido becomes reattached to primary ego activities. Ego activities are of two kinds: ego-controlled id activities, formed by parental interference; and primary ego activities, learned from the human object (parent) and appearing only on the ego level.