introjection


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(psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values

(psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects

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Some participants adopted strategies such as introjection and wishful thinking.
The narcissist's shame based identification is consistent with the introjection of the parent.
Similarly, during episodes of 'blankness', cycles of introjection and projection were compromised along with their capacity to work out boundaries between self and other, private and public spaces.
In a different vein, several individuals mentioned that they felt obliged to remain in umpiring despite their personal circumstances, a finding that was corroborated by the observed statistically significant difference for the dependent variable of extrinsic motivation through introjection (i.e., feelings of guilt, anxiety, or pressure to continue).
One can cling to them obsessively through the pathological process of introjection that Freud called melancholia, allowing the past to take over the present and convert it into a "living death." Or one can offer them habitation in order to acknowledge their presence, through the healing introjection process that is mourning, which, for Freud, differs from melancholia in that it allows one to lay the ghosts of the past to rest by, precisely, acknowledging them as past.
The least internalized of these is introjected motivation, or introjection, a motivational state in which behavior is externally regulated by compulsion, avoidance of guilt, or anxiety, and a sense that one "should" or "ought to" complete a behavior (Deci & Ryan, 1995; Koestner & Losier, 2002; Ntoumanis, 2002; Wang & Biddle, 2001).
Questions regarding motivation were divided into five subcategories: intrinsic motivation ("Because I enjoy learning new things about music"), identification/integration ("Because I see myself as a musician"), introjection ("Because I would be ashamed if I stopped playing"), external regulation ("Because my parents would be disappointed if I stopped playing") and amotivation ("I don't see the point of learning to play the piano").
Second, it should be possible to identify different groups of Sabbath keepers distinguished by internalization and introjection. Finally, those Sabbath keepers who display the deepest levels of internalized Sabbath keeping should display the highest levels of subjective well-being, and the relationship should be distinct from and stronger than the relationship between widespread, low-cost Christian behaviors and well-being.
We propose a new sociological grounding of psychoanalytic thought, namely using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical model and the concept of the Interaction Order as ways of illuminating the Freudian notions of the superego, the ego-ideal, the introjection of the Father, and the pathways to disorder (which Freud termed "neurosis" in the terminology of his day).
(2) This use of the word 'toxic' derives from the expression "toxic disinhibition" with which Suler (2005) characterizes the disinhibition effect that results from certain conditions of social interaction such as anonimity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination and minimization of authority
(61) In the same work Kristeva talks about "the drive-quality attached to archaic objects" and how that "drive-quality" must be introjected in the individual consciousness; without that introjection , Kristeva says, "pre-objects and abjects threaten from without as impurity, defilement, abomination, and eventually they trigger the persecutive apparatus" (116).
Gauna emphasize this ambiguity--the question the body poses to political power--in several ways, which I will characterize as abjection, projection, and introjection.