Zach, a 20-year-old, adopts sublimation as a defense mechanism. he has a keen interest in poetry. he wants to pursue a career in theater as he loves acting. in the context of freud's psychosexual stages of personality development, he is most likely to be fixated at the

Phallic stage of the Freudian theory of psychosexual stages of personality development, which explains that expression of instinctive drives may conflict with society's expectations. So the energy that would have been used in these drives is channeled towards other forms of release, like poetry, theatre, etc., in other words, through sublimation.