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Definition of cathexis in English: cathexisnoun kəˈθɛksɪskəˈTHeksəs mass nounPsychoanalysis The concentration of mental energy on one particular person, idea, or object (especially to an unhealthy degree). Example sentencesExamples - Vincent describes three developmental positions in adolescence: chaos, narcissistic depression, and renewed cathexis of the object.
- Because the structure of cathexis emphasizes affective and normative components of relationships, Wingood and DiClemente refer to it as the structure of affective attachments and social norms.
- The only thing that I can do, or anybody else can do, is to help you see that, and see your way to, what is called in psycho-medical literature, cathexis.
- The title of this series is a pun on Freud's text ‘Mourning and Melancholia,’ which examines object cathexis in libidinal development, the loss of which leads to narcissism.
- Such a cathexis of subjective viewpoints on an external event or character is, of course, common in narrative works associated with Modernism.
Origin 1920s: from Greek kathexis 'retention', translating German Libidobesetzung, coined by Freud. Definition of cathexis in US English: cathexisnounkəˈTHeksəs Psychoanalysis The concentration of mental energy on one particular person, idea, or object (especially to an unhealthy degree). Example sentencesExamples - Such a cathexis of subjective viewpoints on an external event or character is, of course, common in narrative works associated with Modernism.
- The title of this series is a pun on Freud's text ‘Mourning and Melancholia,’ which examines object cathexis in libidinal development, the loss of which leads to narcissism.
- The only thing that I can do, or anybody else can do, is to help you see that, and see your way to, what is called in psycho-medical literature, cathexis.
- Because the structure of cathexis emphasizes affective and normative components of relationships, Wingood and DiClemente refer to it as the structure of affective attachments and social norms.
- Vincent describes three developmental positions in adolescence: chaos, narcissistic depression, and renewed cathexis of the object.
Origin 1920s: from Greek kathexis ‘retention’, translating German Libidobesetzung, coined by Freud. |