'cathexis' in The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance | Bookmarker

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

It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)

—p.119 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by David Foster Wallace

notable

8 years ago