anticathexis


anticathexis

 [an″tĭ-kah-thek´sis] in psychoanalysis, the energy required for the ego to maintain repression of unacceptable ideas and impulses.

an·ti·ca·thex·is

(an'tē-kă-thek'sis), In psychoanalysis, the shifting of an emotional charge to an impulse or action of an opposite character; for example, unconscious hatred expressed as conscious love. Synonym(s): counterinvestment