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stasis|ˈstæsɪs, ˈsteɪsɪs|
[mod.L., a. Gr. στάσις standing, station, stoppage, f. στα- to stand.]
1. a. Path. A stagnation or stoppage of the circulation of any of the fluids of the body, esp. of the blood in some part of the blood-vessels.
1745R. James Med. Dict. III, Stasis,..a Stagnation. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Stasis, a word used by physicians to express a stagnation of the humors. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 745/2 Previously to the establishment of osteitis [of the cranium]..there is found that stasis of the blood which always precedes inflammation. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 380 In many cases there seems to be an over-fulness of the cerebral venous system and probably a lymphatic stasis. 1913Sir T. Barlow in Times 7 Aug. 8/2 A strong case has been made out for intestinal stasis as a cause of various forms of malnutrition.
b. gen. Inactivity; stagnation; a state of motionless or unchanging equilibrium.
1920Glasgow Herald 30 Nov. 9 The prevailing mood of Labour is indefinite; a condition of stasis has been caused by the coal strike and the dread of unemployment. 1930W. Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity vii. 245 He is drawn taut between the two similar impulses into the stasis of appreciation. 1933T. S. Eliot Use of Poetry & Use of Criticism vi. 103 Arnold represents a period of stasis; of relative and precarious stability, it is true, a brief halt in the endless march of humanity in some, or in any direction. 1940E. Muir Story & Fable v. 186 This could be done by so controlling the chemical processes of the body as to produce a self-subsistent balance, an everlasting, living stasis. 1943Sewanee Review LI. ii. 337 Art, according to Dedalus-Joyce, tends toward the achievement of stasis, which implies a state of contemplation, of detachment from the kinesis of life. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Sept. 1020/3 We see him in the moment of stasis before action. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) iii. 91 A religion whose antipodes are motion and stasis.
c. In the psychoanalytical theory of Wilhelm Reich (see Reichian n. and a.), a hypothetical accumulation of unused or repressed sexual energy.
1942T. P. Wolfe tr. Reich's Function of Orgasm iii. 58 The role of sexual stasis in increasing antisocial and perverse sexual impulses. Ibid. 361 Stasis, the damming-up of sexual energy in the organism, thus the source of energy for the neuroses. 1953in Wilhelm Reich: Sel. Writings (1961) 12 Stasis neurosis, all somatic disturbances which are the immediate result of the stasis of sexual energy, with stasis anxiety at its core. 1973D. Boadella W. Reich vii. 194 There are two fundamental biological responses to sexual stasis, or any other blockage to emotional functioning.
2. [Gr. στάσις in sense ‘faction, discord’.] Party faction, civil strife.
1933R. J. Bonner Aspects of Athenian Democracy v. 91 Solon tried to strengthen the government against sedition, or stasis, as the Greeks called it, by requiring every citizen to take one side or another in case of serious party strife. 1956A. W. Gomme Commentary on Thucydides II. 374 From stasis in Kerkyra to stasis in the Greek world generally..to universal conditions of stasis and war as its stimulus. 1963M. I. Finley Anc. Greeks 51 The dividing-line between politics and sedition (stasis the Greeks called it) was a thin one in classical Greece, and often enough stasis grew into ruthless war. 1975N. G. L. Hammond Classical Age of Greece 166 The weakening of traditional obligations and the revolution in the economy which arose from the war were among the factors which led to the outbreak of stasis, civil war, in 411 and 410 at Athens. |