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