Cadaverize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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

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"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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