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  • verb psychology To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.

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  • 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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From introjection.

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