Freud’s cathetic inertia in some patients correlates with psychic elasticity in psychoanalysis

Evidence

In certain subjects, Freud writes, “the processes which the treatment sets in motion are so much slower than in other people because, apparently, they cannot make up their minds to detach libidinal cathexes from one object and displace them on to another, although we can discover no special reason for this cathetic loyalty” (SE, 23:241). — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4589

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Emotional trust inertia simplifies reactions but blocks mature engagement with its terms — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 246

Broader Connections

• Emotional trust inertia simplifies reactions but blocks mature engagement with its terms #expands (0.78) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 246