infatuative

Since infatuation doesn’t seem in the main to be aimed at building identity—although some of that does go on—we demand that one let go of the infatuation once it becomes clear that it is mainly infatuative sexual fantasizing and not character self construction that is going on. “Oh, that’s just an infatuation; he’ll get over it.”

1994, Howard Kamler, Identification and Character. A Book on Psychological Development, Albany: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 94

Infatuative behavior unfairly reifies a female image, placing an unfair burden not only on the given movie star but, especially, on the young girl who strives to appropriate the face in the spectacle and the man who lusts after the unreal image.

1999, Greg Harris, “RECONTEXTUALIZING IRON JOHN FOR THE IL(MYTHO)LITERATE”, in The Centennial Review, volume 43, number 2, page 372 of 353–376