Cathexis

Definition: Cathexis

Cathexis

Noun

1. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge".

Date "cathexis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Cathexis

Domain	Definitions
Business	Term in psychoanalytic theory referring to the concentration of psychic energy in a particular outlet. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	Attachment, conscious or unconscious, of emotional feeling and significance to an idea, object or most commonly a person. (references)
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Synonym: Cathexis

Synonym: charge (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cathexis

English words defined with "cathexis": acathexis ♦ cathectic, charge. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cathexis

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Glaze of Cathexis (1990)
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Commercial Usage: Cathexis

Domain	Title
Books	Cathexis (reference) Reparenting Schizophrenics: The Cathexis Experience (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Cathexis (reference) Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 13: Cathexis (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Usage Frequency: Cathexis

"Cathexis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cathexis" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cathexis

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "cathexis": object-cathexis.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cathexis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cathexis	6
cathexis manning michael	2
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Modern Translations: Cathexis

Language		Translations for "cathexis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kathexis, besættelse (compulsion, obsession, occupation, sit-in). (various references)

Dutch		cathexis, object-cathexis. (various references)

Farsi		نیروی عاطفی(ر.ش.), تمرکزروانی , انرژی روانی . (various references)

French		cathexis, investissement. (various references)

German		Kathexis, Besetzung (cast, casting, filling, occupation, seizure, sit-in, stocking, team, translation). (various references)

Greek		συγκέντρωσις της διανοητικής ή ψυχικής ενεργείας επί μιας ιδέας ή ενός αντικειμένου, συγκέντρωσις της διανοητική ή ψυχικής ενέργειας επί μιας ιδέας ή ενός αντικειμένου. (various references)

Italian		catessi. (various references)

Pig Latin		athexiscay

Portuguese		catéxis. (various references)

Spanish		catexis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cathexis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-s-t-x"
	-1 letter: achiest, aitches.
	-2 letters: axites, chaise, chaste, cheats, ethics, exacts, itches, sachet, saithe, scathe, taches, taxies.
	-3 letters: aches, aitch, axite, caste, cates, cesta, cesti, chase, chats, cheat, chest, chias, chits, cites, ethic, exact, exist, exits, haets, haste, hates, heats, heist, saice, saith, sixte, sixth, stich, taces, tache, tachs, taxes, taxis, teach, texas, theca.
	-4 letters: aces.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-s-t-x"
	+2 letters: chemotaxis.
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