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- German · derived frombesetzen
- English todaycathect
Back-formation from cathexis and cathectic. A loan creation coined by British psychoanalyst James Strachey translating Freud’s German besetzen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cathect
Today it means: To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something. Full definition →
German besetzen