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cathexis

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cathexis /ca·thex·is/ (kah-thek´sis) conscious or unconscious investment of psychic energy in a person, idea, or any other object.cathec´tic
ca·thex·is (k-thkss)
n. pl. ca·thex·es (-thksz)
Concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea.
cathexis
[kəthek′sis]
Etymology: Gk, kathexis, retention
the conscious or unconscious attachment of emotional feeling and importance to a specific idea, person, or object. cathectic, adj.


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This moment of gothic cathexis has its corollary in "Book One: Fear" of Wright's Native Son as Bigger Thomas stealthily tries to deliver Mary Dalton, who has passed out from drugs and alcohol to her bedroom without being discovered.
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3) Sze's poem weaves the fruit's traditional sexual associations with cathexis intensified by his grief for a close friend, Donald Rundstrom.
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