Bell Hooks Quotes

When We Feel Deeply Drawn To Someone, We Cathect Them; That Is, We Invest Feelings Or Emotion In Them. That Process Of Investment Wherein A Loved One Becomes Important To Us Is Called "cathexis". I His Book Peck Rightly Emphasizes That Most Of Us "confuse Cathecting With Loving." We All Know How Often Individuals Of Cathecting Insist That They Love The Other Person Even If They Are Hurting Of Neglecting Them. Since Their Feiling Is That Of Cathexis, They Insist That What They Feel Is Love.
When We Understand Love As The Will To Nurture Our Own And Another's Spiritual Growth, It Becomes Clear That We Cannot Claim To Love If We Are Hurtful And Abusive.

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