Introjection

introjection is a psychoanalytical concept opposed to that of Projection. One owes this concept with Sándor Ferenczi which worked out it in 1909, writing his famous article Transfert and introjection .

Introduction

introjection is passage of the outside to the inside. The neurotic reference mark a feature, a characteristic outside and adapts it.

introjection is thus Fantasme. The neurotic wishes a characteristic, and phantasm that it has it. This introjection approaches oral incorporation: on the mode of food ingestion, incorporation consists with to devour a object.

For Ferenczi, the love supposes such an introjection: the neurotic can like only itself. In the Transfer, characteristics of the psychoanalyst are thus introjectées by the patient.

The Me

introjection consists in for Ego regarding as his a characteristic, a feature, which it will have perceived outside. It is thus about an appropriation, to distinguish from the Identification, more elaborate.

introjection and projection return to the statute of ego, as a representation of the inside and the outside. It is one of the moïques functions to differentiate intern and external.

Freud distinguishes several stages from formation of Ego. The first is that of the me-pleasure purified : ego is compared to all that is pleasant, while any source of displeasure is projected. There is thus initially introjection of all that gets satisfaction.

Me-reality, stage later in the development, affirms a compromise: the neurotic admits as interns certain sources of dissatisfaction.

Introjection and incorporation

These two concepts are not equivalent. Incorporation rests on the body one: the limit between the body and the outside world constitutes the model of any incorporation.

introjection does not rest as much on the body one, on the physical image. There can be introjection, for example, in the Ego ideal .

References

Related articles

  • Identification
  • Transference neurosis
  • For an opposite model: Paranoia

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