introjection

English

Etymology

From intro-, by analogy with projection and interjection.

Noun

introjection (countable and uncountable, plural introjections)

1. (psychology) The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
   • 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:

     Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […] ; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.

Translations

incorporating ideas unconsciously into one's psyche

• French: introjection (fr) f
• German: Introjektion (de) f
• Polish: introjekcja f

See also

• projection

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

introjection f (plural introjections)

1. introjection

Further reading

• “introjection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.