'cathexis' in Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School | Bookmarker

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(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

to name something as a crime is not just to announce its prohibition, but to confer on that act a libidinal cathexis: transgression is sexy

on suicide

—p.171 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries

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