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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of introject.

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  • adjective incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche

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Examples

  • In the analytic setting, the patient introjected or said "yes" to the analyst's interpretation by means of a similar act of negation.

    Ildiko Csengei 2008

  • Abraham's idea that mania "revers [es]" the "retentive tendency of melancholia": mania celebrates the ego's sudden triumph over both ego ideal and the once-loved, lost, and subsequently introjected object.

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • The term "ego-ideal" refers to part of the superego that concentrates all the highest standards and agonizing demands that one has introjected from parents, the culture, recognized authority.

    Scott McLemee: Falling Ever Upwards With Lee Siegel 2008

  • Whereas in melancholia the ego is vampirized by the introjected object, in mania the libido turns with ravenous hunger to the external world of objects; whatever appears before the manic's rapidly advancing probe is swallowed.

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • Most emotions target the outside world, but guilt and shame are exceptions, as they stem from introjected critical figures which target the self.

    Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

  • That's why we don't want child molesters to work with children, we don't want tennis instruction from those who have never played it, and we don't take to heart moralizing conservative rhetoric and press releases introjected into print without surrounding context from people who claim a background as sex workers.

    "Jeff Gannon" asks, "Why should my past prevent me from having a future?" Mumon 2005

  • In Kristeva's psychoanalytic terms, it is a loss that is always already introjected rather than incorporated, hived or encrypted "inside" embodied creatures where it is magically preserved and denied.

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • The cherished and lost object is introjected and this possession or incorporation represents an attempt to preserve it and simultaneously destroy the hated object.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Mother is slowly introjected, first in a part-object fashion—the breast, the bottle, the voice, the face, and the comfort and solace provided become linked permanently with her.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • The parents are permanently introjected by the child, not only the pictorial representation, but the feelings connected to being securely parented.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

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