desublimate
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3ADJ.
hard-boiled, sensuous
VERB + DESUBLIMATE
subjects, text
DESUBLIMATE + NOUN
apprehension, genre's, things
Definitions
verb
To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.
Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.
However, the question remains as to why the text does not desublimate the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race, and nation with the same sort of scrupulous rigor that it demystifies the economic and social ideology of the form.
The practice of pornography teaches its subjects to desublimate the sensuous apprehension.
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3However, the question remains as to why the text does not desublimate the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race, and nation with the same sort of scrupulous rigor that it demy
WiktionaryThe practice of pornography teaches its subjects to desublimate the sensuous apprehension.
WiktionaryWhen we desublimate the things we have repressed, we create a space in which we feel liberated to be as monstrous as we wish.
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