1. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
   "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
   - charge

Derived forms: cathexes

See also: cathectic

Type of: libidinal energy

Encyclopedia: Cathexis

• antemeridian
• antemortem
• antenatal
• antenna
• calligraphical
• calligraphist
• calligraphy
• Callimorpha
• Callimorpha jacobeae
• Callinectes
• Callinectes sapidus
• calling
• calling card
• calling into question
• calling together
• Callionymidae
• calliope
• Calliophis
• calliopsis
• calliper
• Calliphora
• Calliphora vicina
• Calliphoridae
• callipygian
• callipygous