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Meaning of "cathect" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CATHECT

kəˈθekt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CATHECT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cathect is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cathect in English.

WHAT DOES CATHECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cathect in the English dictionary

The definition of cathect in the dictionary is to invest mental or emotional energy in.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CATHECT

PRESENT

Present
I cathect
you cathect
he/she/it cathects
we cathect
you cathect
they cathect
Present continuous
I am cathecting
you are cathecting
he/she/it is cathecting
we are cathecting
you are cathecting
they are cathecting
Present perfect
I have cathected
you have cathected
he/she/it has cathected
we have cathected
you have cathected
they have cathected
Present perfect continuous
I have been cathecting
you have been cathecting
he/she/it has been cathecting
we have been cathecting
you have been cathecting
they have been cathecting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cathected
you cathected
he/she/it cathected
we cathected
you cathected
they cathected
Past continuous
I was cathecting
you were cathecting
he/she/it was cathecting
we were cathecting
you were cathecting
they were cathecting
Past perfect
I had cathected
you had cathected
he/she/it had cathected
we had cathected
you had cathected
they had cathected
Past perfect continuous
I had been cathecting
you had been cathecting
he/she/it had been cathecting
we had been cathecting
you had been cathecting
they had been cathecting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cathect
you will cathect
he/she/it will cathect
we will cathect
you will cathect
they will cathect
Future continuous
I will be cathecting
you will be cathecting
he/she/it will be cathecting
we will be cathecting
you will be cathecting
they will be cathecting
Future perfect
I will have cathected
you will have cathected
he/she/it will have cathected
we will have cathected
you will have cathected
they will have cathected
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cathecting
you will have been cathecting
he/she/it will have been cathecting
we will have been cathecting
you will have been cathecting
they will have been cathecting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cathect
you would cathect
he/she/it would cathect
we would cathect
you would cathect
they would cathect
Conditional continuous
I would be cathecting
you would be cathecting
he/she/it would be cathecting
we would be cathecting
you would be cathecting
they would be cathecting
Conditional perfect
I would have cathect
you would have cathect
he/she/it would have cathect
we would have cathect
you would have cathect
they would have cathect
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cathecting
you would have been cathecting
he/she/it would have been cathecting
we would have been cathecting
you would have been cathecting
they would have been cathecting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cathect
we let´s cathect
you cathect
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cathect
Past participle
cathected
Present Participle
cathecting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CATHECT

arrect · coerect · conject · crew-necked · flecked · humect · lanzknecht · microinject · miscorrect · predilect · refect · reinject · roll-necked · suberect · subsect · superinfect · tranect · unsuspect

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CATHECT

cathead · cathectic · cathedra · cathedral · cathedral choir · cathedral church · cathedral city · cathedratic · cathepsin · catheptic · Cather · Catherine · Catherine de´ Medici · Catherine I · Catherine II · Catherine of Aragon · Catherine of Braganza · Catherine of Siena · Catherine wheel · catheter

WORDS THAT END LIKE CATHECT

affect · architect · aspect · collect · connect · correct · direct · effect · expect · incorrect · object · perfect · project · protect · redirect · reflect · respect · select · subject · suspect

Synonyms and antonyms of cathect in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cathect» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CATHECT

Find out the translation of cathect to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cathect from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cathect» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

cathect
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

catectizar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

cathect
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

cathect
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تركيز فكري
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

катектировать
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

catexizar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

cathect
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

cathect
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Cathect
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

zu besetzen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

cathect
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

cathect
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Cathect
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cathect
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

cathect
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कॅथॅक्ट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

cathect
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

investire libidicamente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

cathect
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

катектіровать
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

cathect
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cathect
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cathect
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cathect
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cathect
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cathect

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CATHECT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of cathect
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cathect

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATHECT»

Discover the use of cathect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cathect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New ...
This confusion is understandable since they are similar processes, but there are also striking differences. First of all, as has been pointed out, we may cathect any object, animate or inanimate, with or without a spirit. Thus a person may cathect ...
M. Scott Peck, 2002
2
Pre-object Relatedness: Early Attachment and the ...
(p. 424). I speculate that once children have internalized their caretaker's intermittent inability to cathect their signal, they cannot adequately cathect the signaler function of their own ego; their affect sign is blocked from achieving symbolic ...
Ivri Kumin, 1996
3
The Importance of Civility
And we, the self-deniers, cathect through selfless devotion, and we find frustration, which is another word for stress. Consequently, another type of cathecting also leads to stress. Furthermore, those of us, who deliberately stop associating with ...
T S Bogorad, Terry Bogorad, 2006
4
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic ...
Fairbairn's. object. relations. theory. Explaining. the. refusal. to. cathect. the. analyst. Sabine. Vuaillat. Fairbairn's work was unknown in France until recently. In Chapter 4, however, Vermorel shows that French analysts have now been taking ...
Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff, 2005
5
Recovery from Co-Dependency: It's Never Too Late to Reclaim ...
The process of having a client consciously decide to energize or cathect a particular Child Ego State is a central technique in the application of this developmental approach to treatment. Having Jenny cathect her four-year-old Child Ego State ...
Laurie Weiss, Jonathan B. Weiss, 2001
6
From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique ...
If, when one states that the infant has an “inborn readiness to cathect with libido a person who provides pleasurable experiences,” the pleasure one has in mind is pleasure derived from drive reduction, one is essentially restating secondary ...
Morris N. Eagle, 2011
7
The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the ...
The analyst's work is to cathect an alliance between anal and genital against the one that exists between anal and faecal, to take the traumatic impact out of the difference between the sexes, and to show how it can be nourishing. All these ...
Jacqueline Schaeffer, 2011
8
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach
This leaves a new Child ego state containing healthy bound energy which she can now cathect at will, should she need to, in order to experience her natural curiosity. We believe it is possible to cathect a healthy Child ego state whilst the Adult ...
Petruska Clarkson, 2013
9
Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis
that it must not cathect the motor images (with consequent discharge), until certain conditions have been fulfilled on the perceptual side. It learns further that it must not cathect the wishful idea beyond a certain degree, because, if it does, it will ...
Bernard Burgoyne, 2000
10
Bion's Legacy to Groups: Selected Contributions from the ...
... nature arouse/cathect basic-assumption activities; 3. increasingly, organizations arouse/cathect fears of catastrophic change; 4. organizations arouse/cathect memory and desire. 1. The Industrial Revolution brought together under one roof, ...
Parthenope Bion Talamo, Franco Borgogno, Silvio A. Merciai, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATHECT»

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1
Lesbian Desire, a Fathers Suicide and 12 Tony Noms: Alison …
“She said Holly helped me 'cathect' real life, to live in reality instead of in my head and work. Cathect is a crazy psychological term that is the ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
2
Job, Grief and Being Sticky-A Sermon
We cathect and invest our emotion in another; to set up a tent, a place or person, where we feel safe. Human beings, at their most fundamental ... «Patheos, Jun 14»
3
A Sterling proposal: Let's abolish team owners altogether Rooting …
... the groups of millionaire athletes whom the fans will never meet—for them to cathect with their shared emotions. A sports team is a reflection ... «Salon, May 14»
4
Skylight Addicts and Private Wonderlands: On the Garret Novel
It would be quite the feat to out-cathect Dud No-man, but Godfrey St. Peter comes close in his attachment to his garret study in Willa Cather's ... «The Millions, Aug 13»
5
Flesh and Statue
The statue was 'a Mask, a Public Self, False Self or Object-Cathect.'” At times, Ghost Story makes exactly this mistake, confusing the statue of ... «Boston Review, Mar 13»
6
Exile and belonging
... of metaphor layered on to the portentousness of prolepsis in order to cathect readers' expectation into a heightened and tangible desire''? «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 13»
7
On Rape and Neocolonialism
... is mediatised (not that they don't happen daily here and abroad) in order to cathect a personal issue onto the world terrain of human atrocity. «CounterPunch, Jan 13»
8
New Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012
Rather than dooming our desires to vanish with digital video, we should be excited to watch them cathect to a newly “real” thing, whether that ... «Brooklyn Rail, Nov 12»
9
Paul Haggis, two rabbis and “Million Dollar Baby”
And since you dramatically defected from Scientology and, oh I don't know, might be looking for another religious enterprise to cathect to—you ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., Jun 10»
10
Down with Demonology: The Left Can Do Better
Even more conveniently, the left has the right's history of racism, the bloodstain on its nightshirt, onto which we can cathect all our hostilities in ... «Huffington Post, Oct 09»
REFERENCE
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