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cathexis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | charge |
| Type of | libidinal energy |
| Derivation | cathectic |
Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge.
Examples of cathexis
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The key to this story is that it was basically a process of elite cathexis.
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I can add that what ups the intensity of a cathexis are conflicting impulses, or instructions.
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This identification is later complicated by the object-cathexis that forms as a result of the mother's breast.
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Consciousness is just a feedback loop arising when the intensity of a cathexis surpasses a certain threshold.
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Still utilizing an energic system, Freud conceptualized the question of energy directed at the self versus energy directed at others, called cathexis.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
- In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.
- The Cathexis are a race of sixth-dimensional beings from the DC Universe.
- The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea
- The investment of libido in objects. An example would be Freud's enormous cathexis of interest around sexuality. Cathexes correspond to ideas, whereas affects are discharge products.
- Points to the libidinal energy that is invested or attached to some representation or object (person) outside the ego.
- In psychodynamic theory, cathexis is the process of investing libidinal [= emotionally loaded] "energies" in cognitive structures such as object concepts [whence fetishes], person concepts [whence fixations], propositions [whence attitudes], or schemas [whence belief systems]. ...
- Tolman's idea that the ability of deprivation states to motivate behavior transfers to the stimuli present during the deprivation state.
