Associations to the word «Cathexis»

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca