English Explanatory Dictionary

cathect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.

Pronunciation

/kəˈθɛkt/

Word forms

cathect cathects cathecting cathected

Etymology

Back-formation from cathexis and cathectic. A loan creation coined by British psychoanalyst James Strachey translating Freud’s German besetzen.

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