Cadaverize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
"Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire."
Example
More examples"Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire."
Etymology
From cadaver + -ize.
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