Usage examples (34)

• Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge
• 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...
• 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."