cathect
American
[kuh-thekt, ka-]
/ kəˈθɛkt, kæ- /
verb (used with object)
Psychoanalysis.
Etymology
Origin of cathect
First recorded in 1930–35; back formation from cathectic “relating to cathexis”; see origin at cathexis
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