Associations to the word «Cathexis» - Word Associations Network

Noun

Freud
Id
Powell
Object
Investment
Energy
Ray
Measure
Process
Charge
Term
Idea
Love
League

Adjective

Emotional
Unconscious
Mass
Sexual

Wiktionary

CATHEXIS, noun. (psychoanalysis) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.

Dictionary definition

CATHEXIS, 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".

Wise words

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.

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