cathect

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ca·thect (k

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tr.v. ca·thect·ed, ca·thect·ing, ca·thects

To invest emotional energy in (a person, object or idea).

[Back-formation from cathexis.]

ca·thectic adj.

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cathect - inject with libidinal energy

energize, perk up, energise, stimulate, arouse, brace - cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"

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arouse brace energise energize perk up stimulate			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? Loving an author, loving a text: getting love back into the humanities by Stimpson, Catharine R. / Confrontation 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). Riding in cars with boys: reconsidering smooth talk by Dickinson, Peter / Literature-Film Quarterly As readers they cathect onto Austen's novels precisely because they appear to have no plots. Jane Austen's Letters: facts and fictions by Bander, Elaine / Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal			cath- cath. Catha Catha edulis Cathar Catharacta Catharacta skua Catharanthus Catharanthus roseus Cathari Catharine Catharine wheel Catharism Catharist Cathars catharsis Cathartes Cathartes aura cathartic cathartid Cathartidae cathartin Cathay Cathaya cathead cathect cathectic cathedra cathedral cathedral ceiling cathedral city Cathedralic Cathedrated cathepsin Cather Catheretic Catherine Catherine de Medicis Catherine de Médicis Catherine de' Medici Catherine Howard Catherine I Catherine II Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Braganza Catherine of Siena Catherine Parr Catherine the Great catherine wheel catheter catheterisation			Cathartocarpus fistuloides Cathartocarpus rhombifolius Catharus fuscescens Catharus fuscescens Catharus guttatus Catharus mustelinus Catharus mustelinus Catharus ustulatus Cathay Cathay Cathay Israel Chemistry Cathay Pacific Airlines Virtual Cathay Pacific Airways Cathay Pacific Loyalty Programme Cathaya Cathaya argyrophylla Cathaya Tree Cathays Cathays Cathea Cathea cathead cathead cathead line catheads catheads Cathechism Cathechism Cathecism Cathecism cathect cathected cathectic cathectic cathecting cathects Catheder Catheder Catheder cathedra cathedra cathedra cathedrae cathedrae cathedral cathedral cathedral Cathedral & John Connon Alumni Association Cathedral and John Connon School Cathedral and the Bazaar Cathedral Bluffs Yacht Club Cathedral Caverns State Park cathedral ceiling Cathedral church Cathedral church cathedral cities Cathedral City Cathedral city (disambiguation) Cathedral Forest Action Group Cathedral glass Cathedral Gorge

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