Anticathexis
In psychoanalysis, anticathexis, or countercathexis, is the energy used by the ego and super-ego|ego] to bind the primitive impulses of the Ego, [superego, and id|Id]. Sometimes the ego follows the instructions of the superego in doing so; sometimes however it develops a double-countercathexis, so as to block feelings of guilt and anxiety deriving from the superego, as well as id impulses.
Repression and isolation
Freud saw the establishment of a permanent anticathexis as a prerequisite for successful psychological repression. He also saw countercathexis as playing a central role in isolation.In a late work, Freud further distinguished between the external anticathexis of repression and what he called “internal anticathexis".