Introjection

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. ❋ Geneen Roth (2010)

Charismatic leaders are inner-directed and identify with objects, symbols, and ideals that are connected with introjection. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was always him, the introjection of him, that I wanted to be rid of. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

Considerations of this sort lead him to summarize his views about introjection in a remarkable paragraph: ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

(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. ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

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 ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

But he also presents straightforward arguments that are supposed to show the falsity of introjection: ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

Avenarius's name is now primarily associated with the notion of introjection. ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

There is no trace of ˜introjection™ in this picture; ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

He spends considerable time providing a genetic analysis of how the intellectual catastrophe of introjection could have happened. ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

She showed how these two positions, which form the basis of personality and psychopathology, arise early in development as a result of repetitive cycles of projection and introjection. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

Object relations theorists also differ with respect to whether they viewed the ego as an innate and intact structure that is present in a rudimentary or undifferentiated form from birth or whether it develops as a result of the introjection of positive experiences with caretakers. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

Repetitive cycles of introjection and projection result in the building up of internalized object relations. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

In introjection, which arises earlier than identification, images of fantasied or real frustrations and dangers in relationships with others are taken in under the impact of highly charged primitive impulses and affects. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

The ego mechanisms of introjection and identification are key in this development. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

Just as infants take in external experiences through introjection, they also project certain internal states onto others. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)