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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, or idea.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context psychoanalysis English) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.
__NOTOC__ "Cathexis" is the 13th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The Cathexis are a race of sixth-dimensional beings from the DC Universe.
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 of sixth-dimensional beings from the DC Universe
Cathexis is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
- Cathexis grallatrix (Bates, 1865)
- Cathexis longimana (Pascoe, 1859)
- Cathexis vitticollis Zajciw, 1967
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.