(image: TsingHua University, Beijing- Anne-Marie 2007)
Word: Hybrid- The combination of two or more different things, aimed at achieving a particular goal”(Wikipedia, “Hybrid”).
Term: Hypercathected- From classical theory; the state in which a neurone is overfilled with psychic energy and therefore disturbs psychic equilibrium which, when expressed, appears as neurotic fixations (APP Glossary, nashville-psychoanalytic.org). To become obsessed with old memories, the act of getting sucked into a “vortex” of thought. (AM interpretation).
Book: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
“Each single one of the memories and expectations in which the libido is bound to the object is brought up and hypercathected, and detachment of the libido (physic energy- personal development, desires) accomplished in respect of it….It is remarkable that this painful unpleasure is taken as a matter of course by us” (Freud explaining the work of grief, 133, Didion)- This separation makes it had to progress b/c one is constantly being sucked into an in-depth thought process. Have you ever spend a morning trying to get out of bed, but you cannot because you are being completely bombarded by memories of a deceased loved one or former boyfriend/girlfriend? This is the act of grieving.
“The hybrid nature of Asian identity seems much more adaptive to a world in conflict, and therefore more beneficial, than the relative homogeneity we find in the Western world…in the west we tend to see ourselves as central, we are more challenged and even destabilized in our core identity tan Asians are. They manage to remain themselves while becoming us” (21, Moisi).
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