cathexis
IPA: kˈæθˈɛksɪs
noun
- (psychoanalysis) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.
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Examples of "cathexis" in Sentences
- That type of love is cathexis, it is a feeling.
- Peck seeks to differentiate between love and cathexis.
- Once through the cathexis stage, the work of love begins.
- There was a ton of cathexis going on in that relationship.
- In psychoanalysis, cathexis is the libido's charge of energy.
- The Cathexis are a race of sixth dimensional beings from the DC Universe.
- The catharsis of emotive expression breaks down the cathexis of stored emotions.
- I believe the first time and until today the last time I saw the word "cathexis," it was in a piece by Norman Mailer.
- It's the same mentality that chose to render Freud's Besetzung by "cathexis," Fehlleistung by "parapraxis," and Ich by "ego."
- It is the cathexis that makes love both exquisite and painful but it is the "will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual growth" that makes it endure.
- A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'"
- A cathexis is conceived to be analogous to an electric charge which can shift from one structure except in so far as it becomes bound – or to troops which can be deployed from one position to another.
- According to Peck, love is "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." hooks goes on to discuss the importance of not confusing affection and/or cathexis investment of feeling and emotion in another with love.
- Generally speaking, it is only those of us, such as creative scientists and Classical poets, who are in an active, efficiently productive quality of practical intellectual relationship with the principles adopted by deceased important thinkers of the past, who find in that fully efficient, if immortal quality of efficient social relationship in the form of a dialogue with minds from the past, the effect of what we sense as "cathexis" with those relevant minds living in the past.
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