Medical term:
anticathexis
anticathexis
[an″tĭ-kah-thek´sis]in psychoanalysis, the energy required for the ego to maintain repression of unacceptable ideas and impulses.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
an·ti·ca·thex·is
(an'tē-kă-thek'sis),In psychoanalysis, the shifting of an emotional charge to an impulse or action of an opposite character; for example, unconscious hatred expressed as conscious love.
Synonym(s): counterinvestment
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