Peck uses the word cathect divisively, claiming that people can only.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

She refuses to "cathect" to the trial, and I would be derelict in my responsibility if I failed to point out that Microsoft Word 2002 does not recognize the existence of the word "cathect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellis Weiner: Scribe Sees Boffo Vid as Veep Asst. Trial Preems] Reference

But there is not yet a self sufficient for him to cathect to in the way that he had cathected to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference

Even more conveniently, the left has the right's history of racism, the bloodstain on its nightshirt, onto which we can cathect all our hostilities in one easy swing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Wadsworth: Down with Demonology: The Left Can Do Better] Reference

Hence the verbs to cathect, decathect, and hypercathect, the last referring to the defensive manoeuvre (see DEFENCE) of investing in one process in order to facilitate REPRESSION of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word of the Day] Reference

Tylim, citing Jacobson (1964) and Eisnitz (1969, 1974), noted that because of the danger of the immediacy of forbidden incestuous parental objects, the teenager withdraws cathexis from object representations, to cathect the self-representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Well, standards of proof amongst those who cathect on politics are low in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

"cathect" pets, not love them as human children.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

"cathect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference