cathexis

Once through the cathexis stage, the work of love begins.

Cutter saw the force of his cathexis, the yank of energy.

Freud saw the early cathexis of objects with libidinal energy as a central aspect of human development.

Peck seeks to differentiate between love and cathexis.

However, cathexis is not love.

He straps Judah to a thaumatograph, tests his cathexis, that concentrate furrowing of mind.

Eric Berne raised the possibility that child art often represented the intensity of cathexis invested in an object, rather than its objective form.

Body cathexis drives multiple behaviors, such as clothing choices and weight management, and cosmetics purchases.

The catharsis of emotive expression breaks down the cathexis of stored emotions.

All the same, true love cannot begin in isolation, a certain amount of cathexis is necessary to get sufficiently close to be able to truly love.

Decathexis is a psychoanalytical term that describes the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object.

Nevertheless I'm reluctant to authorize the Mass Cathexis Measure.

In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.

Critics charge that the term provides a potentially misleading neurophysiolgical analogy, which might be applicable to the cathexis of ideas but certainly not of objects.

Syzygy (Cathexis)

Freud defined cathexis as an investment of libido, pointing out for example how dream thoughts were cathected with different amounts of affect.

Freud saw thinking as an experimental process involving minimal amounts of cathexis, "in the same way as a general shifts small figures about on a map".

Body cathexis refers to person's investment of mental or emotional energy (cathexis) in their own body.

In the primary process, by contrast, energy is discharged (and desire is fulfilled) through cathexis; through investment in 'perceptual memories'.

Still utilizing an energic system, Freud conceptualized the question of energy directed at the self versus energy directed at others, called cathexis.

Another reason why dreams are partially successful is because certain preconscious daytime thoughts can be resistant and these can retain a part of their cathexis as well.

In his works he elucidated upon the concepts of "ego states", "ego limits", "ego cathexis" and the median nature of narcissism.

Cathexis (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2012, Parallax Sounds)

That is, the unhindered mobility of the eye in the 'continuous and asymmetrical visual field' resembles the 'unhindered mobility of cathexis'in the primary process.