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Cathexis (n.) comes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in bound and freely mobile states — the distinction that gives the deepest insight yet gained into the nature of nervous energy.

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Hypnoid hysteria (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Breuer's idea of a thought received in a dreamy state and kept outside the ego from the start; Freud never met a genuine case.