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- verb psychology To
unconsciously incorporate into one'spsyche .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized
- verb incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously
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Examples
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In this new novel, recently longlisted for the Booker, he creates aprotagonist so desperate to locate a sense of belonging and acceptance that he is driven to introject the history and culture of an entire people.
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It is no business of courts to introject their own economic ideas and doctrines into the matter, and they have no right to take the power to make these choices away from the political branches.
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I believe psychology tells us the offspring inherits or is imprinted with this “introject” or flawed perspectives on the world, with less than adequate love and caring and the offspring carries that eternal need within it.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Because excessive frustration generates intense anxiety, the infant tries to expel or project rather than take in or introject the resultant “bad” selfobject images.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Because excessive frustration generates intense anxiety, the infant tries to expel or project rather than take in or introject the resultant “bad” selfobject images.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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He would no longer introject his ego into these passing mental states and identify with them.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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The literary text provides us with a fantasy which we introject, experiencing it as though it were our own, supplying our own associations to it.
Shrinking Literature Holland, Norman N. 1969
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Was it just another introject of the world’s tireless beauty, or a genuine insight about the human world’s healing?
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Likewise, the infant may introject an image of the mother’s smiling face that is associated with soothing and warmth and that exerts a comforting influence.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Likewise, the infant may introject an image of the mother’s smiling face that is associated with soothing and warmth and that exerts a comforting influence.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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