cathexis

/kuh-thek-sis/US // kəˈθɛk sɪs //UK // (kəˈθɛksɪs) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural ca·thex·es [kuh-thek-seez]. /kəˈθɛk siz/. Psychoanalysis.
- : the investment of emotional significance in an activity, object, or idea.
- : the charge of psychic energy so invested.

Drooling over such luxury was supposed to result in a cathexis of the Ralph Lauren label.
In the other case the object is retained, and there is a hyper-cathexis of it by the ego and at the ego's expense.
Is it quite certain that identification presupposes that object-cathexis has been given up?