Meaning of cathectic | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy.

Examples

“What we are dealing with here is more cathectic energy than the quota of affect⟳ as such, but the second is included in the first, as the following quotation shows:”

“Viewing animals inside an enclosure bounded by barriers agitates many people simply because the perspective seems wrong. This remnant of modernism is perhaps the most cathectic concern⟳ and source of the sometimes intense criticism of zoos.”

“Nowhere is this contestation between purity, pleasure, and danger more clearly expressed than in gnotobiology's most cathectic public image: the boy in the bubble.”

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