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introject, v. Psychol.|ɪntrəʊˈdʒɛkt| [Back-formation f. introjection.] trans. To incorporate an inward image of (an external object, or the values and attitudes of others) into oneself. Cf. introjection 2, 3. Hence introˈjective a., that is introjected; introˈjected ppl. a.
1925J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers IV. 78 The objects presenting themselves, are absorbed by the ego into itself, ‘introjected’. 1932Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 156 Between the ages of 1 and 2½ his [the child's] mentality alternates between an introjective psychotic pattern..and a projective psychotic pattern. 1935Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Anal. XVI. 145 From the beginning the ego introjects objects ‘good’ and ‘bad’, for both of which the mother's breast is the prototype—for good objects when the child obtains it and for bad when it fails him. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality viii. 158 A blue rose, which was in the speaker's perceptual world,..has been formed in the common perceptual world and introjected into the hearer's perceptual world. 1952W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. ix. 169 We are familiar with a theory that we ‘introject’ our version of our parents. 1962Sci. & Psychoanal. V. 74 Second, the problem was said to be related to the cathexis of a deceased sister now existing as an ‘introjected object’. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 353/2 It is more probable that as a result of the powerful oral medium of the initial object-relations, identification may assume a more or less oral-cannibalistic, incorporative, and therefore introjective terminology. 1967M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour vii. 123 Children introject their parents' love and admiration of themselves. If they are never loved they will come to reject themselves and suffer from low self-esteem in later life. |