.... But, I argue, Adorno’s review seems to highlight a dispersal of prejudicial energies, once directed into feelings of anti-Semitism, now into new resources of social, political, and economic division. Clear pathways for this dispersal form through what Adorno names as cathexis. This is a microscopic...

... and a defiance The South Atlantic Quarterly 88:4, Fall 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press, ccc 0038-2876/8950. 962 Elisabeth Bronfen of what an unconditional acknowledgment of death would imply: namely the ego s relinquishing of its narcissistic libidinal cathexis.2 To Sophie s husband Max...

... because your investment and the thing you are trying to understand and transform is law, not any one of the theories that you cannibalize along the way, though you hope some very fancy theorist will wake up one day and say, Hey, those law guys are on to something. The cathexis, as Freud would say...

... admit it, they follow Freud in asserting that the unconscious is characterized by motility of cathexis and absence of contradiction; it is not the site of either/or the binary logic of exclusion but rather functions with what Deleuze and Guattari call inclusive disjunctions, where inconsis­ tent terms...

... of a later essay by Sedgwick on Henry James that asks “Is the Rectum Straight?” the ass is a site, at least for some gay men, of an erotic cathexis that is indicatively male.11 From the perspective of that desire—however one names or experiences it: that is, whether as biological or fantasmatic...

... be part and parcel of the mythic power of the valley, but when Shuzhen is praised 42 for preserving her chastity, a nativist cathexis has gone too far. Indeed, a fuller version of this nativism—emphasizing ancestral, popular cultural elements...

... will be by volume and page number and will appear parenthetically in the text. 11 See Alberto Moreiras, “Children of Light: Neo-Paulinism and the Cathexis of Difference (part 1 The Bible and Critical Theory 1.1 (2005). 12 See David E. Johnson, “As If the Time Were Now: Deconstructing...

... one’s ‘‘fanhood if one happens to be a fan, but given the importance of such identifications for the sheer living of one’s daily life, why should a ‘‘cathexis’’ or identification with Tiger Woods, say, be any less well regarded than a similar psychic identifi- cation with the late Pope John Paul II...

... of the new. Consider the high modernist argument as it moves from Clement Greenberg s general position to that of Jean-Frangois Lyotard.1 When late modernist art is not metaphysically inclined it is, as we know, absolutely formal; late modernism finds a peculiar cathexis in and through sheer opticality...

... feminism over two decades, emotionally and intellectually attached to the crises of its development. The intensity of that cathexis may explain why I can­ not see clearly where we are going. To some extent my uncertainty is an effect of feminism s historicity: its self-critical movement into middle age...

.... The conversion of the state into society is a direct consequence of liberal individualism and is sustained upon a refusal of the political insofar as the political is to be understood as the cathexis of a group in relation...