Sublimation and Repression

The concept of Sublimation is crucial to Nietzsche's system, since his cardinal thesis--that humans create their deities--requires that the Sublime be generated, not given as such.  Accordingly, his introduction of the term, in #189 Beyond Good and Evil, seems ironic.  There, in the context of ruminating how the constraint of a drive serves to intensify it, he observes that "under the pressure of Christian value judgments, the sex drive sublimated itself into love."  In other words, that apparent instance of Sublimation is, rather, one of Repression.  Furthermore, the observation itself involves its own act of Repression.  For, insofar as Sublimation connotes deification, idealization, exaltation, purification, ennoblement, etc. it is an Apollinian effect, at least according to Birth of Tragedy at its outset.  In contrast, "the sex drive sublimated itself" plainly evinces a Dionysian effect, thereby indicating that with it Nietzsche is continuing the repression of the Apollinian principle that begins towards the end of Birth of Tragedy--questionably, as has been previously discussed--and informs his thinking thereafter, and perhaps, Freud's, as well.