Decathexis
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In psychoanalysis, decathexis is the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In psychoanalysis, decathexis is the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object.[1] Decathexis is the process of dis-investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.[2] In narcissistic neurosis, cathexis is withdrawn from external instinctual objects (or rather their unconscious representations)[3] and turned on the ego – a process Freud highlighted in the Schreber case, and linked to the subject's ensuing megalomania.[4] A similar decathexis of energy has been linked to the emergence of symptoms of…
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