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Noun(1) (psychoanalysis(2) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

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(1) The title of this series is a pun on Freud's text u2018Mourning and Melancholia,u2019 which examines object cathexis in libidinal development, the loss of which leads to narcissism.(2) Such a cathexis of subjective viewpoints on an external event or character is, of course, common in narrative works associated with Modernism.(3) Because the structure of cathexis emphasizes affective and normative components of relationships, Wingood and DiClemente refer to it as the structure of affective attachments and social norms.(4) Vincent describes three developmental positions in adolescence: chaos, narcissistic depression, and renewed cathexis of the object.(5) The only thing that I can do, or anybody else can do, is to help you see that, and see your way to, what is called in psycho-medical literature, cathexis .
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