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The author examines Laurent Danon-Boileau’s suggestion that the elaboration of castration is a decisive point in differentiating two types of sublimations. She looks for the beginnings of this distinction in the theoretical writings of Freud and certain post-Freudian authors such as Green and Duparc. As she proceeds, the question of mourning loss, introduced by Freud (1915) in “On transience”, leads her to consider sublimation as a consolation in the face of “transience” and uncertainty. She links this to the loss of omnipotence, according to Winnicott. Based on the clinical material presented during the colloquium, she discusses the role of the public in certain “addressed” artistic sublimations and suggests that there are different types of sublimations depending on the avatars of the trajectory of the sublimatory process at work in the resolution of the oedipal conflict. Is it not a matter of distinguishing between sublimations of component pre-oedipal drives and those that are resolutely post-oedipal, with their corollary, castration?