cathect การใช้

• It conceded the point in 1950 in an addendum to its Second Edition, when it added cathect as a verb meaning " to invest with libidinal energy ."
• An example was his discovery of the transitive verb cathect, derived from the Freudians'term cathexis, which was used to describe the notion of an investment of libidinal energy.
• Abel found that Alix Strachey, a Freud pupil, had invented the companion-verb " to cathect " by back-formation when she translated his " Inhibitions " in 1936.
• According to Freud, people are born without a sense of themselves as individuals, or self towards which the ego should aspire .'As it evolved, the ego distanced itself from primary narcissism, formed an ego-ideal, and proceeded to cathect objects '.
• If the child's frustrations are too great, for example, reality-testing breaks down, and his " narcissism . . . remains split off from its instinctual life and cathects an exaggerated ego ideal " ( " The ego ideal " p . 32)