cadaverize
cadaverize verb: to remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
Verb
cadaverize (third-person singular simple present cadaverizes, present participle cadaverizing, simple past and past participle cadaverized)
- 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.1993, Lahcen Haddad, Narrative, Desire and Historicity, page 269
- In a way, the burial marker is an ideal metaphor for the signifiers that simultaneously immortalize and cadaverize the subject, situating subjectivity outside the material flux of transient, tangible being by condensing its essential identity into a different "material" register altogether (i.e....2008, Adrian Johnston, Zizek's Ontology, page 50
Forms of cadaverize
| third-person singular present | cadaverizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | cadaverizing |
| past participle | cadaverized |
| past | cadaverized |
| alternative form | cadaverise |
Origin of cadaverize
From cadaver + -ize.
Questions about cadaverize
- What does cadaverize mean?
- Cadaverize means to remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
- What part of speech is cadaverize?
- Cadaverize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of cadaverize?
- The past tense of cadaverize is cadaverized.
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