Sublimation/Sublime

I'm wondering about the psychological process of sublimation and what possible uses it might have on a sociological level.

Sublimation, as you can see it defined above, is redirecting emotional energy from a negative route to a positive, constructive, route.

Looking up sublime, which has the same root, I was expecting to find something similiar along the lines of redirection or subtlety. Instead I find this;

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis (exalted)) is the quality of transcendent greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual or artistic. The term especially references a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.

Well...man...shucks!!

I'll keep at it but I'm still convinced there's at root a connection and I'll keep playing around a bit in other sources til I get at the etymology.