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==Definition==
The term "[[introjection]]" was coined by [[Sándor Ferenczi]] in 1909, in order to denote the opposite of [[projection]].<ref>Ferenczi, Sándor. "Introjection and Transference," 1909, in ''Sex in Psychoanalysis'', New York: Basic Books, pp. 35-57.</ref>
==Sigmund Freud==[[Freud]] took up the term soon afterwards, arguing that the "purified pleasure-ego" is constituted by the [[introjection]] of everything that is a source of [[pleasure]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Instincts and their Vicissitudes]]," 1915c. [[SE]] XIV, 111.</ref>
==Melanie Klein==
[[Melanie Klein]] uses the term a great deal, but restricts the term to the [[introjection]] of ''[[object]]s''.
==Symbolic Identification==
Instead he argues that what is [[introjection|introjected]] is always a [[signifier]].
<blockquote>"Introjection is always the introjection of the speech of the other."<ref>{{S1}} p. 83</ref></blockquote>
[[Introjection]] thus reers refers to the process of [[symbolic]] [[identification]], the process by which the [[ego-ideal]] is constituted at the end of the [[Oedipus complex]].<ref>{{E}} p. 22</ref> --
==Projection==
[[Lacan]] is also opposed to the view that [[introjection]] is the opposite of [[projection]].
Thus whereas in the [[Klein]]ian account an [[object]] can be [[introjection|introjetedintrojected]] and then re-[[projection|projectedreprojected]] ''ad infinitum'', [[Lacan]] argues that these two processes are located in entirely different registers [[register]]s and so cannot be conceived of as part of a single process.
He argues that [[projection]] is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which relates to images[[image]]s, whereas [[introjection]] is a [[symbolic]] process which relates to [[signifier]]s.<ref>{{Ec}} p.655</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Ego-ideal]]
* [[Identification]]
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
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* [[Projection]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Structure]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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