Sexuality, Sublimation, Narcissism

Freud's concept of the Sublimation of Sexuality involves all three principles of his concept of the Psyche--the blind gratification-seeking Id, the repressive Superego, and the Ego that diverts the drive to a socially-acceptable gratification.  In contrast, as has been previously discussed, Nietzsche, in #189 of Beyond Good and Evil, attributes all three factors to Sexuality itself, i. e. his Dionysian principle.  Now, a second distinction between the two concepts of Sexuality emerges when the preceding section, #188, is taken into consideration.  For, while for Freud, the drive is internal to an individual, Nietzsche there plainly attributes it, and its self-sublimation, to the species.  From that perspective, therefore, Freud's concept of Sexuality as Pleasure-seeking, is itself already a symptom of Secondary Narcissism, i. e. because it reduces a species-drive to a private experience, a reduction which Marcuse's attempted purification also accepts.