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The notions of sublimation and idealization were also changed and refined by Freud's new conceptualization of instinctual [[dualism]] and of the functioning of the mind. [[Processes]] of identification, and more specifically [[primary identification]], now presupposed a desexualization that can facilitate the transmutation of object-[[cathexes]] into the new instinctual vicissitudes implied by sublimation and idealization.
Although in the analytic [[literature]] the term "desexualization" later received more systematic [[treatment]] by Heinz [[Hartmann]] in the context of the "desexualized ego," as applied to [[adaptation]] to the social [[environment]], it still seems important to distinguish clearly between a [[neurotic]] kind of desexualization characterized by repression of the sexual impulses, or by their sublimation and the idealization of the object, from a [[psychotic]] process engendered by the leveling effects of the [[Death Instinct|death instinct ]] on the sexual instincts.
In sum, as a result of the stimulation they [[represent]] relative to instinctual defusion, the psychic phenomena of desexualization are most clearly bound up, specifically, with the processes of unbinding, [[decathexis]], and deobjectification; they also have a [[dialectical]] [[relationship]] with processes of identification.
* ——. (1920g). Dr. Anton von Freund. SE, 18: 267 seq.
* ——. (1921c). Group [[psychology]] and the analysis of the ego. SE, 18: 65-143.
* ——. (1923b). [[The Ego and the Id|The ego and the id]]. SE, 19: 12-59.
