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cathexis
(encz) | cathexis, n: |
Cathexis
(gcide) | Cathexis \Cath*ex"is\, n. [Gr. ka`qexis, keeping.]
1. (Psychiatry) the process of investing mental, emotional,
or libidinal energy or significance in an object, person,
or idea.
[PJC]
2. (Psychiatry) the emotional or libidinal energy invested in
an object, person, or idea.
[PJC] |
cathexis
(wn) | cathexis
n 1: (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: cathexis,
charge] |
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cathexis
(encz) | cathexis, n: |
acathexis
(wn) | acathexis
n 1: (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which
significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an
individual |
cathexis
(wn) | cathexis
n 1: (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: cathexis,
charge] |
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