Cathexis

A cathexis is conceived to be analogous to an electric charge which can shift from one structure except in so far as it becomes bound – or to troops which can be deployed from one position to another. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I believe the first time and until today the last time I saw the word "cathexis," it was in a piece by Norman Mailer. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

It's the same mentality that chose to render Freud's Besetzung by "cathexis," Fehlleistung by "parapraxis," and Ich by "ego." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Generally speaking, it is only those of us, such as creative scientists and Classical poets, who are in an active, efficiently productive quality of practical intellectual relationship with the principles adopted by deceased important thinkers of the past, who find in that fully efficient, if immortal quality of efficient social relationship in the form of a dialogue with minds from the past, the effect of what we sense as "cathexis" with those relevant minds living in the past. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'" ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is the cathexis that makes love both exquisite and painful but it is the "will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual growth" that makes it endure. ❋ Brigindo (2008)

There was a ton of cathexis going on in that relationship. ❋ Brigindo (2008)

According to Peck, love is "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." hooks goes on to discuss the importance of not confusing affection and/or cathexis investment of feeling and emotion in another with love. ❋ Brigindo (2008)

I wrote cathexis, but it should have be catharsis, for the theatrical context. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

But this collective cathexis that created Obamamania is obviously a deep desire for authenticity, and he is the natural repository of our hidden hopes. ❋ Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008)

She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it's going to get ugly, with the hurling of dangerous words like viragos and cathexis and — my personal favorite — "sycophantish": ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..." ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Object cathexis refers to energy invested in external objects as opposed to the self. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Hence also counter-cathexis, anti-cathexis: the energy invested in maintaining repression of a cathected process. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Hence also withdrawal of cathexis, for the process of decathexis. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Just as the transference transferred in the pedagogic sphere imparts to 'rigor' the eros, the sexiness, of the master teacher, so in the bureaucratic sphere it signifies a charisma of routinization, the cathexis of routine" (257). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

[Guy A]: Man, have you seen Joe? What's up with him lately? Guy B: Being an obsessive [stalker like] always. This time his cathexis is [the girl next door]. Guy A: That's screwed up. ❋ Edeniz (2011)

His [frustration] with his [father] was [repressed], but re-emerged through a cathexis in relation to his boss. ❋ Andy (2004)