Crossword clues for cathect
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cathect \cathect\ v. to inject with libidinal energy.
Wiktionary
vb. To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.
WordNet
v. inject with libidinal energy
Usage examples of "cathect".
The deep-buried homosexual desire for the father's penis (present in all policemen) was next cathected by denial of the father, via denial of paternal ancestory, and he began to abolish all Irish Catholic traces from ego-memory, substituting those of Jewish culture, since the Jew, as persecuted minority, reinforced his basic masochism.
The deep-buried homosexual desire for the father's penis (present in all policemen) was next cathected by denial of the father, via denial of paternal ancestry, and he began to abolish all Irish Catholic traces from ego-memory, substituting those of Jewish culture, since the Jew, as persecuted minority, reinforced his basic masochism.