cadaverize

English

Alternative forms

• cadaverise

Etymology

From cadaver +‎ -ize.

Verb

cadaverize (third-person singular simple present cadaverizes, present participle cadaverizing, simple past and past participle cadaverized)

1. To remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
   • 1993, Lahcen Haddad, Narrative, Desire and Historicity, page 269:

     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.

   • 2008, Adrian Johnston, Zizek's Ontology, page 50:

     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., into elements of a symbolic order that both precedes the individuals existence and persists after his or her vanishing).

   • 2008, Tony Bennett, John Frow, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis:

     The desire to analyse the 'absolute eye' and its tendency to 'cadaverize' has also been a central concern in work by the white South African artist Penny Siopsis.

   • 2019, Dawne McCance, The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort, page 65:

     I have noted that throughout La vie la mort Derrida calls attention to this "programming machine," a machine that operates effectively to auto-reproduce biological, political, and pedagogical sameness and that in so doing, attempts to reify (“cadaverize”) the living body and the living body of language (for this, see especially Derrida's “Nietzsche and the Machine”).