desublimate

Verb

desublimate (third-person singular simple present desublimates, present participle desublimating, simple past and past participle desublimated)

1. (intransitive) To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.
2. (transitive) Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.
   • However, the question remains as to why the text does not desublimate the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race, and nation with the same sort of scrupulous rigor that it demystifies the economic and social ideology of the form.2005, Christopher Breu, Hard-boiled Masculinities, →ISBN, page 81
   • The practice of pornography teaches its subjects to desublimate the sensuous apprehension.2000, Allison Pease, Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity, →ISBN, page 85