In the voyage to Brobdingnag section of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the title character can clearly be seen engaging a common psychological theory over 150 years before it was technically defined. The story manifestly presupposes the Freudian concept of sublimation of repressed sexual frustration into behavior redirected toward another goal with the intent to prove … Continue reading Sexual Frustration, Sublimation and Aggression in Gulliver’s Travels