Abstract

Although the very different cultural traditions drove a deep wedge between Western and Eastern civilizations, some points of intersection can be identified to build and to prop up an ideal bridge. For the most of us as Europeans, the notion of ‘sublimation’ belongs primarily to the Freudian achievements, but the lexicon of Physics holds a larger meaning of it. In literature, cinematography and arts we can observe various types of individual sublimation in action in many different ways. Ozu Yasujirō has been almost insurmountable as filmmaker in showing typical japanese familiar life, where the sublimation as phase transition always ends in new harmonic conditions between people, giving to his characters further opportunities to go on in their lives. Sublimation and harmony are strictly related in his idea of cinema.