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cathectic

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ca·thect  (k-thkt, k-)
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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Adj.1.cathectic - of or relating to cathexis
depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
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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.
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