cathexis

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It was by capitalising upon the popular sentiment generated by such acts and exploiting the anti-monarchy cathexis, long pending among the masses, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) led the popular movement that resulted in the uprooting of the monarchy, and an administration that was exploiting its ill-gotten powers because of the impunity that it enjoyed.

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  1. noun Concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea.

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  • It was by capitalising upon the popular sentiment generated by such acts and exploiting the anti-monarchy cathexis, long pending among the masses, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) led the popular movement that resulted in the uprooting of the monarchy, and an administration that was exploiting its ill-gotten powers because of the impunity that it enjoyed. —  ScreenTalk
  • Fountain Street cathexis femme inspiratrice the inevitable desire infidelity —  Fountain Street
  • Generally speaking, it is only those of us, such as creative scientists and Classical poets, who are in an active, efficiently productive quality of practical intellectual relationship with the principles adopted by deceased important thinkers of the past, who find in that fully efficient, if immortal quality of efficient social relationship in the form of a dialogue with minds from the past, the effect of what we sense as "cathexis" with those relevant minds living in the past. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'" —  GreenCine Daily
  • I am to give obeisance to him and his firm brothers lurking in the gardenÐÐ they strip me of my childhood casually with the relative calm of a standard play, the rising action, apex, and dŽnouementÐÐ in the formation of sleepwalkers they withdraw silently into the past commentary: no one can explain why they came to shape the hidden aquifers of your life, but it is here, on Fountain Street, where you first stepped out of the unseen cathexis upstairs, my uncle relived his boyhood, looking from the garret window to the tree he had been tied to and into the corners of the yard where his impulses formed he drove us to the pond by the frozen reservoirÐÐ my brother became pallid as animals do when divining pain, and we clambered out of the cab toward him we undressed in a snowbank waiting for him to break the ice -- he circled around, motioning to me —  Fountain Street
 

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  1. Greek kathexis, holding, retention, from katekhein, to hold fast : kat-, kata-, intensive pref.; see cata- + ekhein, to hold; see segh- in Indo-European roots.
 

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