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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne