In [[psychodynamics]], '''cathexis''' is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea. This concept was developed by [[Sigmund Freud]] in 1922. In [[psychoanalysis]], cathexis is the [[libido]]'s charge of energy. Freud often described the functioning of psychosexual energies in mechanical terms, influenced perhaps by the dominance of the [[steam engine]] at the end of the [[19th century]]. In this manner, he also tended to think of the libido as a producer of energies.
If an individual is frustrated in his libidinal desires, Freud often represented this frustration as a blockage of energies that would then build up and require release in other ways. This release could occur, for example, by way of [[regressionJames]] and the "re-cathecting" Strachey's rendering of former positions (i.e. [[fixationFreud]] at 's term ''Besetzung'', and now a standard term in the [[oral fixation|oral phasepsychoanalytic]] or [[anal fixation|anal phasevocabulary]] and of the enjoyment of former sexual objects ["object[English]]-cathexes"[[speaking]], including [[autoeroticismworld]]).
When One of the [[egomeanings]] blocks such efforts to discharge oneof 's cathexis by way 'Besetzung'' is the occupation of [[regression]], i.e. when the ego wishes to [[repression|repress]] such [[desire]]s, Freud uses the term "[[anticathexis|anti-cathexis]]" or counter-charge. Like a steam engine, the libido's cathexis then builds up until it finds alternative outlets, which can lead to [[sublimation (psychology)|sublimation]] town or to the formation of sometimes disabling symptomsterritory.
==def==Like its [[French]] equivalent ''investissement'', ''Besetzung'' is in common usage, and [[Freud]]'s [[choice]] of terminology reflects his usual reluctance to use a highly technical vocabulary.
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Cathexis (58) CD== References ==<references/>[[Freud]] uses the term to describe the [[process]] whereby a quantity of [[psychical]] [[energy]] becomes attached to an [[object]] or [[idea]].
== See also ==In his earliest writings, Freud describes neurones as [[being]] cathected with a quantity of energy or a quota of [[affect]]. * There is some variation in usage in the later [[Psychoanalysistexts]], but the basic [[notion]] of quantities of energy remains fairly constant.* Thus, to say that an object is libidinally cathected means that it is charged with [[Psychodynamicssexual]]energy deriving from sources [[internal]] to the [[psyche]]. In [[category:Freudian psychologyFreud]]'s second [[Category:Lacantopography]], the [[Category:Termsid]], or the [[Category:Conceptsinstinctual]]pole ofthe [[Category:Psychoanalysispersonality]], is said to be the source of all cathexes.
