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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cathexis /kəˈθɛksɪs/

▶noun Psychoanalysis the undesirable concentration of mental energy in one direction.

– origin 1920s: from Gk kathexis ‘retention’, translating Ger. Libidobesetzung, coined by Freud.

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