Dissonance, Sublime, Sublimation

Despite the etymological kinship of the terms 'sublime' and 'sublimation', Nietzsche's influential introduction of the latter has apparently never been connected with the former, even in his own oeuvre.  But, they plainly intersect in his concept of Dissonance, as articulated in Birth of Tragedy.  For, his concept of Sublime there, inherited from Schopenhauer, is constituted by the joyous overcoming of suffering.  Furthermore, he conceives the production of Dissonance as itself the overcoming of that suffering, i. e. it neither merely represents nor expresses the latter.  In other words, on this account, Dissonance is both the Sublime and a sublimation of the suffering of the Artist.  So, his treatment of it in Birth of Tragedy is more significant as a prelude to his seminal naturalization of Psychology, crystallized in the Will to Power principle, than as a contribution to Aesthetic Theory.