In psychoanalysis, a counter-investment of emotional energy that opposes a repressed desire or forbidden impulse.
From anti- (against) + cathexis (emotional investment, from Greek kathexis meaning holding fast). A psychoanalytic term coined to describe how the psyche resists its own repressed impulses.
Freud and his followers believed the mind constantly battles itself—anticathexis is one of their key concepts, where part of your mind actually fights against your own hidden desires to keep them buried!
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