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cathectic

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ca·thec·tic (k-thktk)
adj.
Of or relating to cathexis.

cathectic.
See cathexis.


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If Peter Sacks's Freudian analysis of the elegiac mode, in which the mourner-poet transfers affection for the lost loved one to a suitable replacement-object, applies to endangered cultural memory, then the threatening of a coherent self by external forces effects a rise in cathectic energy, (2) which seems to be universal, taking care to identify the forms that energy takes and the psychic processes it empowers and impoverishes.
The scene describing the woman's encounter with the Latino boy suggests that their relationship has a cathectic dynamic.
 
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