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cathexis Psychol.|kəˈθɛksɪs|
[a. Gr. κάθεξις holding, retention; intended as a rendering of G. (libido)besetzung (Freud).]
The concentration or accumulation of mental energy in a particular channel.
1922J. Strachey Freud's Group Psychol. iii. 48 Dread in an individual is provoked either by the greatness of a danger or by the cessation of emotional ties (libidinal cathexes [orig. Libidobesetzungen]). 1923E. Jones in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Analysis IV. 299 In hetero-suggestion..a hypercathexis of the idea of the operator is correlated with a hypo-cathexis of all ideas in conflict with his. 1948Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXVIII. 172 There are a number of very specific factors responsible for any particular process of ‘cathexis’. 1951C. Kluckhohn et al. in Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory of Action iv. ii. 398 Since value always involves affect, cathexis and value are inevitably somehow interrelated. |