Transient cathexes, which cause all territories limited and marked by codes to disappear in their wake

cathecting onto the destiny of labor of something foreign to it, a general learnedness

Thus, in depression, the depressive mode is cathected; in generalized anxiety disorder, the danger mode is cathected; in panic disorder, the panic mode is cathected (Beck et al., 1985).

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

the explicit de-cathexis of the "nice house, nice family" picture that bourgeois culture is still capable of projecting as ideal

Auto-eroticism must thus be distinguished from what Freud will call 'narcissism', a state in which one's body or ego as a whole is 'cathected', or taken as an object of desire.

Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child, in which the good child has been made to develop a false self by parents who cathect the child narcissistically

When I whipped him gently with my sash, he made me say the cathected words. The cathected words! he'd beg.

This doesn’t obviate the fact that such sadistic cathexis was shoved into the public sphere in the first place:

Lenore's own private well of emotional cathex

that's why everybody should pay attention to it: because everybody's fighting about it. It is a culturally cathected term.

he could perform cathexis

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

it is still unclear why work should be cathected in the first place