In A Narcissistic Cathexis, You Invest More Energy Into Your Ideas About Another Person Than In The Actual, Objective, External Person. So The Man Who Falls In Love With Beauty Is Quite Different From The Man Who Loves A Girl And Feels She Is Beautiful And Can See What Is Beautiful About Her.

-Alison Bechdel

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In A Narcissistic Cathexis, You Invest More

Alison Bechdel

In A Narcissistic Cathexis, You Invest More Energy Into Your Ideas About Another Person Than In The Actual, Objective, External Person. So The Man Who Falls In Love With Beauty Is Quite Different From The Man Who Loves A Girl And Feels She Is Beautiful And Can See What Is Beautiful About Her.

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Beautiful

Girl

Falling In Love

My Father Once Nearly Came To Blows With A Female Dinner Guest About Whether A Particular Patch Of Embroidery Was Fuchsia Or Magenta. But The Infinite Gradations Of Color In A Fine Sunset - From Salmon To Canary To Midnight Blue - Left Him Wordless.

Father

Sunset

Blow