All 17 Uses of

latent

in

The Demolished Man

Latent Espers turned up infrequently.†
Chpt 7 *

latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active

@kins was one of the burning lights of the Guild long-range education plan, and leader of the Environment Clique which believed that telepathic ability was not a congenital characteristic, but rather a latent quality of every living organism which could be developed by suitable training.†
Chpt 10

So far, his results had been the discovery of 2% Latent Espers, which was under the average of the Guild Institute interviews.†
Chpt 10

His psyche began to throb and vibrate as he reached out and absorbed those tiny streams of latent energy.†
Chpt 15

From each Esper in the city, a trickle of latent power that merged and merged into a stream, a river, a swirling sea of Mass Cathexis directed toward Powell, tuned to Powell.†
Chpt 15

He was out of the house, wandering through the streets, blind, deaf, senseless, immersed in that boiling mass of latent energy...like a ship with sails caught in the nexus of a typhoon, fighting to convert a whirlpool of wind into the motive power that would lead to safety...S. Powell fought to absorb that fearful torrent, to Capitalize that latent energy, to Cathectize and direct it toward the Demolition of Reich before it was too late, too late, too late, too late, too late...— 16 ABOLISH THE LABYRINTH.†
Chpt 15

He was out of the house, wandering through the streets, blind, deaf, senseless, immersed in that boiling mass of latent energy...like a ship with sails caught in the nexus of a typhoon, fighting to convert a whirlpool of wind into the motive power that would lead to safety...S. Powell fought to absorb that fearful torrent, to Capitalize that latent energy, to Cathectize and direct it toward the Demolition of Reich before it was too late, too late, too late, too late, too late...— 16 ABOLISH THE LABYRINTH.†
Chpt 15

Every human being has a psyche composed of latent and capitalized energy.†
Chpt 17

Latent energy is our reserve...the untapped natural resources of our mind.†
Chpt 17

Capitalized energy is that latent energy which we call up and put to work.†
Chpt 17

When the Esper Guild uses the Mass Cathexis Measure, every Esper opens his psyche, so to speak, and contributes his latent energy to a pool.†
Chpt 17

One Esper alone taps this pool and becomes the canal for the latent energy.†
Chpt 17

Using the pool of latent energy, I built a common neurotic concept for Reich...the illusion that he alone in the world was real.†
Chpt 17