Many people ask about the name “Cathexis” and what the word means. After all, it isn’t part of our common lexicon, is it?
Dr. Leonard Corte once described it eloquently through metaphor:

“Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves, recently proven, states that all objects that contain mass also contain gravity.
What this means then, is that any object with mass draws things towards it. That is what Cathexis is – the psychic gravity
that objects (including people) use to draw us to them, and that we use to draw objects to us.”

I think that is rather poetic.