introjectionn.
/ɪntrəʊˈdʒɛkʃən/ 1. The action of throwing in; in quot. 1866 of ‘throwing oneself into’ or entering eagerly upon, some course or pursuit.
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1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xxix. 154 She had so much self-abandonment, such warm introjection.
2. Philosophy. A theory whereby external objects are images of elements within the consciousness of the individual.
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introjection1899
introjectionism1912
1899 J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. xvi. 172 The term ‘introjection’ we owe..to the late Richard Avenarius of Zurich.
1899 J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. xvi. 172 Thus while my environment is an external world for me, his experience is for me an internal world in him. This is introjection.
1903 A. E. Taylor Elem. Metaphysics ii. i. 81 Subjectivism is thus the last step in the development of the fallacy which begins with what Avenarius calls ‘introjection’.
1931 G. F. Stout Mind & Matter 291 Ward finds this in a supposed process..which, following Avenarius, he calls Introjection.
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a. Psychoanalysis. A term used by S. Ferenczi (1909 Jahrb. f. Psychoanalyt. Forschungen I. 422–57) to denote the forming of a subjective image of an object and the transfer to it of emotional energy previously given to the object itself.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > transfer of feelings > [noun] > projection onto other
projection1909
introjection1916
1916 E. Jones tr. S. Ferenczi Contrib. Psycho-anal. ii. 40 One might give to this process, in contrast to projection, the name of Introjection.
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method xii. 387 In the projection, one feels subjective processes producing discomfort as influences of the outer world; in the introjection, inversely, processes of the outer world as one's own.
1922 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Group Psychol. 65 First, identification is the original form of emotional tie with an object; secondly, in a regressive way it becomes a substitute for a libidinal tie, as it were by means of the introjection of the object into the ego.
1946 Mind 55 83 This growth of the super-ego has four main features, ‘narcissism’, ‘introjection’, ‘nemesism’, and ‘sado-masochism’.
1963 Listener 7 Mar. 431/2 The ego has incorporated (by means of introjection..) certain fantasy figures acquired in infancy (such as the image of the breast).
b. Psychology. The forming of an inward image of the attitudes, values, and expectations of people or groups by whom one is anxious to be accepted.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > group psychology > [noun] > forming acceptable qualities
introjection1931
1931 J. C. Flügel in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. ix. 384 An introjection into the self of the earliest external moral forces, i.e. the moral attitudes and precepts of parents.
1955 M. Klein New Directions in Psycho-anal. i. 21 External and internal situations are always interdependent, since introjection and projection operate side by side from the beginning of life.
1962 Listener 21 June 1055/2 When a child's parents have habitually reacted to his behaviour in a certain way—for instance, being shocked if he cheats—then after a time the child begins to react in this way towards himself. This is the process sometimes described as ‘introjection’.
1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour vii. 121 A process of introjection, whereby children adopt the perceptions, attitudes, and reactions to themselves of parents and others.
Derivatives
introˈjectionism n. belief in a theory of introjection.
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introjection1899
introjectionism1912
1912 Mind 21 10 The theory appears..to be really a piece of lingering introjectionism.
introˈjectionist adj. pertaining to introjection.
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Berkeleiana1743
egoistica1834
mentalistic1882
immanental1885
non-substantialist1893
philosophico-psychological1899
introjectionist1903
mentalist1948
1903 A. E. Taylor Elem. Metaphysics iv. i. 304 To translate it into the introjectionist psychology.
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