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Record 1 2006-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

Cathexis is said to be withdrawn from previously cathected ideas, groups of ideas, objects, agencies, etc. Psycho-analysis postulates the withdrawal of cathexis as the economic sub-stratum of various psychical processes, and of repression in particular.

CONT

(...) withdrawal of cathexis, for the process of decathexis.

OBS

cathexis: Neologism invented by Freud's English translators (...) used to describe the quantity of energy attaching to any object-representation or mental structure.

Key term(s)
  • decathexis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Terme du vocabulaire de l'économie désignant le processus par lequel un objet (personne, chose, situation) est privé de sa charge affective pour un sujet donné.

Spanish

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