verb (used with object) Psychoanalysis.
- to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).
1936, psychoanalysis jargon, back-formation from cathectic (1927), from Greek kathektikos, from kathexis (see cathexis).
verb (used with object) Psychoanalysis.
1936, psychoanalysis jargon, back-formation from cathectic (1927), from Greek kathektikos, from kathexis (see cathexis).