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cathectic
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ca·thec·tic (k-thktk)
adj.
Of or relating to cathexis.
cathectic.
See cathexis.
cathectic [kah-thek´tik]
pertaining to cathexis.
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What does it mean, for that matter--or maybe we should ask, what else could it mean--to cathect in a similar way a theoretical moment not one's own?
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Viewed within the framework of Freudian psychoanalysis, what we are witnessing here is Connie's struggle, during the latency period of her psychosexual development, to cathect herself from her father, transferring her primary identification to another love-object, and internalizing within her emergent super-ego the future force of his possible displeasure with her (see Freud, The Ego 29-31 and ff).
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As readers they cathect onto Austen's novels precisely because they appear to have no plots.
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