Cathectic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəˈθɛktɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cathectic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy.
Example Sentences
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:
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cathected, catelectrotonic, hypercathectic, affective, pathetical, emotional.
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