Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unconscious defense mechanism in which one incorporates characteristics of another person or object into one's own psyche.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of throwing within.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun psychology The process whereby
ideas of another areunconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego
- noun (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When external authority figures such as parents, teachers or family members communicate verbal and nonverbal instructions about physical and emotional survival, we coalesce those voices into one voice—The Voice—by a process called introjection internalizing authority figures.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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When external authority figures such as parents, teachers or family members communicate verbal and nonverbal instructions about physical and emotional survival, we coalesce those voices into one voice—The Voice—by a process called introjection internalizing authority figures.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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Charismatic leaders are inner-directed and identify with objects, symbols, and ideals that are connected with introjection.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Placing less blame on Alice than she does on the social circumstances inspiring her heroine's turn to the bottle, Austen here looks at excessive appetites less as the result of an intractable will, than as the introjection of external pressures and repressive social codes.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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Charismatic leaders are inner-directed and identify with objects, symbols, and ideals that are connected with introjection.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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It was always him, the introjection of him, that I wanted to be rid of.
Collage: Blurring the Line Between Memory and Nightmare, II William Harryman 2007
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Considerations of this sort lead him to summarize his views about introjection in a remarkable paragraph:
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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(Mach 1886, 28) Rudolf Wlassak, whom Mach quotes as an authority on Avernarius, argues that the “discovery of the illegitimacy of introjection” reveals “all problems connected with the relation of our ˜sensations,™ ˜presentations™ and ˜contents of consciousness™ to the material things” as well as the “problems as to projection we meet in theories of space, the exteriorization of the space-sensations, etc.” as pseudo-problems.
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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And it is this introjection which, as a rule turns the ˜before me™ into an ˜in me™, the ˜disclosed™ into an ˜imagined™ [Vorgestelltes], the ˜constituent of the (real) environment™ into a ˜constituent of the
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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He spends considerable time providing a genetic analysis of how the intellectual catastrophe of introjection could have happened.
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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