In psychoanalysis, decathexis is the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object.
Decathexis is the process of dis-investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.
In narcissistic neurosis, cathexis is withdrawn from external instinctual objects (or rather their unconscious representations) and turned on the ego – a process Freud highlighted in the Schreber case, and linked to the subject's ensuing megalomania.
A similar decathexis of energy has been linked to the emergence of symptoms of hypochondriasis, as well as of melancholia.
André Green saw decathexis as the product of the death drive, blanking out the possibility of thinking by a process of what he called de-objectilizing.
Decathexis of the lost person in grief was seen as a regular part of the mourning process by Freud, although later analysts have argued that such decathexis was rather the result of inhibited or partial mourning, not of successful mourning.
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In psychoanalysis, decathexis is the withdrawal of cathexis from an idea or instinctual object. Decathexis is the process of dis-investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea. In narcissistic neurosis, cathexis is withdrawn from external instinctual objects (or rather their unconscious representations) and turned on the ego – a process Freud highlighted in the Schreber case, and linked to the subject's ensuing megalomania. A similar decathexis of energy has been linked to the emergence of symptoms of hypochondriasis, as well as of melancholia.
In psychoanalysis, cathexis (or emotional investment) is defined as the process of allocation of mental or emotional energy to a person, object, or idea. The Greek term cathexis (κάθεξις) was chosen by James Strachey to render the German term Besetzung in his translation of Sigmund Freud's complete works. Freud himself used the word "interest" in English in an early letter to Ernest Jones.
vignette|upright=0.7|Sigmund Freud (1922). La psychanalyse est une discipline fondée par Sigmund Freud qui, en 1922, en a donné la définition suivante : La psychanalyse consiste en l'élucidation de certains actes, pensées ou symptômes en termes psychiques à partir du postulat de l'existence du déterminisme psychique : une idée qui se présente à l'esprit ou un acte ne sont pas arbitraires, ils ont un sens, une cause que l'exploration de l'inconscient permet de mettre au jour.