cathexisn.

Brit.

/kəˈθɛksɪs/, U.S.

/kəˈθɛksəs/

Etymology: < Greek κάθεξις holding, retention; intended as a rendering of German (libido)besetzung (Freud).

Psychology.

The concentration or accumulation of mental energy in a particular channel.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > [noun] > concentration of energy

cathexis1922

1922 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud 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 [Ger. Libidobesetzungen]).

1923 E. Jones in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 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.

1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. June 172 There are a number of very specific factors responsible for any particular process of ‘cathexis’.

1951 C. Kluckhohn et al. in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils Toward Gen. Theory of Action iv. ii. 398 Since value always involves affect, cathexis and value are inevitably somehow interrelated.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cathexis
释义	cathexisn. Brit. /kəˈθɛksɪs/, U.S. /kəˈθɛksəs/ Etymology: < Greek κάθεξις holding, retention; intended as a rendering of German (libido)besetzung (Freud). Psychology. The concentration or accumulation of mental energy in a particular channel. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > [noun] > concentration of energy cathexis1922 1922 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud 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 [Ger. Libidobesetzungen]). 1923 E. Jones in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 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. 1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. June 172 There are a number of very specific factors responsible for any particular process of ‘cathexis’. 1951 C. Kluckhohn et al. in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils Toward Gen. Theory of Action iv. ii. 398 Since value always involves affect, cathexis and value are inevitably somehow interrelated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1922
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