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Question

Egosyntonic
Egodystonic
Minutia
Cathexis

Answer 1

Egosyntonic is a medical term referring to behaviors, values, feelings, which are in harmony with or acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego, or consistent with one's ideal self-image.

Egodystonic is a medical term referring to behaviors, e.g. dreams, impulses, compulsions, desires, which are in conflict with the needs and goals of the ego, or in conflict with one's ideal self-image.

Minutia is a small or trivial detail.

Cathexis is a concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea.

Answer 2

Egosyntonic is a medical term referring to behaviors, values,feelings, which are in in harmony with or acceptable to the needs andgoals of the ego, or consistent with one's ideal self-image. It isthe opposite of egodystonic.

Minutiae, in fingerprinting terms, are the points of intrest in a fingerprint, such as bifurcations (a ridge splitting into two) and ridge endings


Cathexis is the libido's charge of energy. Freud often described the functioning of psychosexual energies in mechanical terms, influenced perhaps by the dominance of the steam engine at the end of the nineteenth century. In this manner, he also tended to think of the libido as a producer of energies

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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