introjection
IPA: ɪntrʌdʒˈɛkʃʌn
noun
- (psychology) The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
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Examples of "introjection" in Sentences
- It was always him, the introjection of him, that I wanted to be rid of.
- Considerations of this sort lead him to summarize his views about introjection in a remarkable paragraph:
- Charismatic leaders are inner-directed and identify with objects, symbols, and ideals that are connected with introjection.
- He spends considerable time providing a genetic analysis of how the intellectual catastrophe of introjection could have happened.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
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