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(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
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cathexis
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In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea. Cathexis may also refer to: Cathexis (Star Trek: Voyager), the 13th episode of Star Trek: Voyager Cathexis (comics) , a race ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cathexis \Cath*ex"is\, n. [Gr. ka`qexis, keeping.] (Psychiatry) the process of investing mental, emotional, or libidinal energy or significance in an object, person, or idea. (Psychiatry) the emotional or libidinal energy invested in an object, person, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge" [syn: charge ] [also: cathexes (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context psychoanalysis English) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1922, from Latinized form of Greek kathexis "holding, retention," from PIE root *segh- "to hold" (see scheme (n.)). Used by psychologists to render Freud's (libido)besetzung .
Usage examples of cathexis.
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.
From each Esper in the city, a trickle of latent power that merged and merged into a stream, a river, a swirlingseaofMass Cathexis directed toward Powell, tuned to Powell.
Within those one hundred and twenty Esper seconds, the following took place: A gavel pounding A clock face Hour hand at 9 Minute hand at 59 Second hand at 60 EMERGENCY MEETING To examine a request for Mass Cathexis with Lincoln Powell as the human canal for the Capitalized energy.
They rushed Powell to his home on Hudson Ramp where the entire Guild Lab team alternately sweated over him and congratulated themselves on the first successful Mass Cathexis Measure in the history of the Esper Guild.
In for instance an analytic model, the types of traumas counterphobic reactions cover are almost always pre-Oedipal, at which stage objects' cathexis is Oedipal and symbolic.
Which is to say, we achieve cathexis in the manner best suited to our needs.