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• (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"

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• (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"

• Cathexis: In psychoanalysis , cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea The Greek ...
• Cathexis (Star Trek: Voyager): NOTOC_date June 2010"Cathexis" is the 13th episode of Star Trek: Voyager . Plot: Capt. Janeway begins the episode with a holodeck program set ...
• Cathexis (comics): The Cathexis are a race of sixth-dimensional beings from the DC Universe . Fictional character biography: dimension - the Cathexis are an ...
• Cathexis (disambiguation): In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea. ...
• Decathexis: Decathexis is a psychoanalytical term that describes the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object . cathexis is ...
• Anticathexis: The function of the anticathexis is to restrict and block cathexis from the Id for overall benefit. Category:Freudian psychology ...

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