Unlike Freud, Hartmann would not attribute a choice of a career in art to ______.

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Hartmann, unlike Freud, believed in a more positive view of the ego and its functions. He would not attribute a career choice in art to sublimation, as he saw the ego's adaptive functions as more autonomous and not necessarily tied to the transformation of repressed desires, which is what sublimation involves according to Freudian theory.

Unlike Freud, Hartmann Would Not Attribute a Choice of a Career