anaclitic

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anaclitic

[¦an·ə¦klid·ik]
(psychology)
Pertaining to the dependence of the infant on the mother or mother substitute for a sense of well-being.
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Refining Said's formulation, David Bunn suggests that the colonial encounter with landscape generates "an exaggerated form of anaclisis, or 'propping' of one landscape paradigm upon another (Bunn, 2002, page 144).
Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine

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