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According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Ego uses psychological strategies known as 'Defense Mechanisms' to establish a balance among the three structural components of personality: Id, Ego, and Superego. If an individual redirects their unacceptable and repressed aggressive desires or impulses into a socially acceptable, constructive, and higher cultural or artistic purpose, what is this specific defense mechanism known as in the context of Freud's psychoanalysis?

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According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, 'Sublimation' is a mature defense mechanism in which an individual redirects their socially inappropriate or repressed libidinal and aggressive energy into constructive, artistic, scientific, or socially higher and acceptable activities. It is considered a positive way of mental health and personality adjustment.

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