cathect

vt.[心]将欲力集中于[见CATHEXIS]

发音

/kəˈθɛkt/

词形变化

cathecting cathects 三单 cathects cathecting 现在分词 cathected 过去式 cathected 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.

    及物 心理学

    1978 [Simon & Schuster], M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled, 2012, Random House (Rider), page 105, The feeling of love is the emotion that accompanies the experience of cathecting. Cathecting, it will be remembered, is the process by which an object becomes important to us. Once cathected, the object, commonly referred to as a 'love object,' is invested with our energy as if it were part of ourselves, and this relationship between the us and the invested object is called a cathexis.

词汇关系

动词

上位词 6

brace stimulate arouse energize energise perk up

词源

Back-formation from cathexis and cathectic. A loan creation coined by British psychoanalyst James Strachey translating Freud’s German besetzen.

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