cathect

[ kuh-thekt, ka- ]

verb (used with object)Psychoanalysis.
  1. to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).

Origin of cathect

1
First recorded in 1930–35; back formation from cathectic “relating to cathexis”; see origin at cathexis

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