Used mainly in PSYCHOANALYSIS to refer to the psychic energy a patient invests in a person, place, idea or thing. EMOTIONS associated with the object of cathexis may be keenly aroused whenever it is re-encountered.
Used mainly in PSYCHOANALYSIS to refer to the psychic energy a patient invests in a person, place, idea or thing. EMOTIONS associated with the object of cathexis may be keenly aroused whenever it is re-encountered.
