anticathexis

Freud saw the establishment of a permanent anticathexis as a prerequisite for successful psychological repression.

In psychoanalysis, anticathexis, or countercathexis, is the energy used by the ego to bind the primitive impulses of the Id.

In a late work, Freud further distinguished between the external anticathexis of repression and what he called "internal anticathexis" (i.e. alteration of the ego through reaction formation).

Key players in the Kompromisslösung theory of symptom production, at the core of Freud's theory of resistance, were: Repression (often used interchangeably with the term anticathexis), defense, displeasure, anxiety, danger, compromise, and symptom.