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Cathexis

Attachment, conscious or unconscious, of emotional feeling and significance to an idea, object or most commonly a person.
National Institutes of Health

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2013
2013
Mathematical thought in the light of Matte Blanco’s work
Taking into account some basic epistemological considerations on psychoanalysis by Ignacio Matte Blanco, it is possible to deduce… 
2013
2013
Female Migrant Sex Workers in Moscow: Gender and Power Factors and HIV Risk
This study aimed to build formative knowledge regarding HIV risks in female migrant sex workers in Moscow, focusing on gender and… 
2008
2008
Poetry and History: Bengali Mangal-Kabya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal
1995
1995
Body image disturbances in young adults with cancer. Implications for the oncology clinical nurse specialist.
The impact of the diagnosis of cancer and its treatments on the body image of young adults (18–29 years) diagnosed with cancer is… 
1992
1992
Inhibition and the control of behavior From Gall to Freud via Phineas Gage and the frontal lobes
1990
1990
Body Cathexis and Clothed Body Cathexis: Is There a Difference?
To investigate the difference between perceptions of the nude body and of the clothed body 29 women were administered the Body… 
1988
1988
Bulimics and restrained eaters: a personality comparison.
1988
1988
Body-Cathexis and Self-Esteem
The relation between self-esteem and body-cathexis has been studied extensively (Fisher, 1986). Secord and Jourard (1953) devised… 
1988
1988
Relations between Physical Activity, Weight Discrepancies, Body-Cathexis, and Psychological Well-Being in College Women
This study examined the relations between physical activity, weight discrepancies, body-cathexis, and indicators of psychological… 
1962
1962
A Critical Examination Of Freud's Concept of Bound vs. Free Cathexis
N A NUMBER of occasions when Freud invoked the concept of bound cathectic energy to explain some phenomenon, he 0 spoke of it in… 
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