libidinal energy

It conceded the point in 1950 in an addendum to its Second Edition, when it added cathect as a verb meaning "to invest with libidinal energy."

The outcome of the interaction between the id, ego and the superego, (each contending for as much libidinal energy as possible) determines our adult personality.

Ms. Dinnage asserts that Reich "began to turn away from clinical work and started his laboratory study of libidinal energy" during the Scandinavian years.

As much aim-inhibited libidinal energy as possible is needed to keep people bound together in communities and work situations, and to counteract their violent desires towards one another.

Modern psychologists say that the force released is Freud's libidinal energy.

However, it needs to be emphasized that this libidinal investment of the self is not merely derived from an instinctual source of libidinal energy.

This libidinal energy, once let loose, could itself be exposed to an ordering, as in the theory of Freud and the practice of psychoanalysis.

It is supposed to concentrate the world's free-floating orgone, or universal libidinal energy, in the sitter.

Freud saw the early cathexis of objects with libidinal energy as a central aspect of human development.

Apparently, nothing could unblock the Baroness's primal libidinal energy.