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cathect, v. Psychoanalysis.|kəˈθɛkt| [Back-formation f. cathectic a.] To charge with mental energy; to give (ideas, etc.) an emotional loading.
1936A. Strachey tr. Freud's Inhibitions xi. 145 A repressed instinctual impulse can be activated (newly cathected) from two directions. 1951C. Kluckhohn et al. in Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory of Action iv. ii. 399 Disvalued activities are cathected. |