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cathexes

n. (plural of cathexis English)

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cathexes

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cathexis
  1. 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]

  2. [also: cathexes (pl)]