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Definition of Introject
1. Verb. Incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously.
2. Noun. (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized.
Definition of Introject
1. Verb. (psychology) To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Introject
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Introject
Literary usage of Introject
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"... transfer themselves to persons and objects in the external world, and to bring
the latter unconsciously into touch with the self or to introject them. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... transfer themselves to persons and objects in the external world, and to bring
the latter unconsciously into touch with the self or to introject them. ..."
3. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"... into this dualism, is no doubt in the main an actual one (cf. the Diet, of
Philos., sub verbo). Yet the imitative way of deriving the " introject ..."
4. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"... because purely individual.4 Not all reality is psychical, inasmuch as it would
be a mistake to introject, as purely individual, a content with reference ..."
5. Collected Papers on the Psychology of Phantasy by Constance Ellen Long (1921)
"The intuitive type appears to be exquisitely sympathetic, owing to the tendency
to project or introject. This is productive of perfect harmony so long as ..."
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