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We will attempt to show why, according to Lacan, sublimation as the destiny of the non-repressed sexual drive, is the place of satisfaction of repetition. This enables us, amongst other things to straighten out certain confusions linked, after Freud, to handling the notion of sublimation, often confused with idealization. We will illustrate this through the whirling movement of sublimation, in which Lacan’s Homage to Marguerite Duras on the Ravishing of Lol V. Stein finds its place. This is also the opportunity to envisage how “making a case of the clinic” (“faire cas de la clinique”) can be included in this questioning.