Sublimation and Exploitation

Like 'sublime', but unlike 'subliminal', 'sublimate' is etymologically peculiar, connoting 'elevation', but containing a prefix that connotes 'under'.  Regardless, the concept of Sublimation, which he borrows from Chemistry, is significant for Nietzsche, because it explains a derivation of noble concepts from ignoble origins, thereby offering an alternative to the thesis that such concepts are necessarily supernatural.  Now, for Freud, Sublimation is a Psychological mechanism, in which drives are directed to socially acceptable outlets, some of which are 'higher' expressions, e. g. Art.  However, according to Marcuse, some of those socially acceptable outlets are falsely presented as 'noble', notably alienated Labor, thereby facilitating the exploitation of workers.  So, though Marcuse does not seem to note it, Freud's classification of some merely conventional outlets as 'sublimation' exceeds the scope of Nietzsche's concept, and unwittingly incorporates that deception.