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Attachment, conscious or unconscious, of emotional feeling and significance to an idea, an object, or, most commonly, a person. In transference, patients withdraw their cathexis (or investment) from past figures and reinvest it in the clinician as a new figure.<\/p>\n

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An investment or an object, idea, or action that has special significance or effect for a person.<\/p>\n

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Powerful concentration of emotion on a particular person, place, or thing, or on one\u2019s self. When such a concentration becomes painful or troubling, displacement may occur, in which the emotion becomes focused on another object instead.<\/p>\n

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Emotional attachment to an idea, object, or person.<\/p>\n

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The emotional or mental energy used in concentrating on an object or idea.<\/p>\n

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