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anticathexis

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anticathexis [an″tĭ-kah-thek´sis]
in psychoanalysis, the energy required for the ego to maintain repression of unacceptable ideas and impulses.
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For this protection the consciousness makes the energy that can counter the unconscious energy: 'the ego was obliged to protect itself against the constant threat of a renewed advance on the part of the repressed impulse by making a permanent expenditure of energy, an anticathexis, and it thus impoverished itself.
Walter Benjamin and psychoanalysis: on dream and revolution in ... by Kageura, Ryohei / Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences
 
 
 
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