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| + | "[[Introjection]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[introjection]]'') | ||
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| + | The term "[[introjection]]" was coined by [[Sándor Ferenczi]] in 1909, in order to denote the opposite of [[projection]].<ref>Ferenczi. 1909</ref> | ||
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| + | [[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>Freud. 1915c.</ref> | ||
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| + | [[Melanie Klein]] uses the term a great deal, but restricts the term to the [[introjection]] of ''[[object]]s''. | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] criticizes the way [[psychoanalysts]] have tended to adopt "magical" views of [[introjection]], which confuse it with incorporation, thus mixing up the orders of [[fantasy]] and [[structure]].<ref>{{S1}} p.169</ref> | ||
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| + | Thus [[Lacan]] rejects the [[Klein]]ian imagery in which [[introjection|introjects]] are internal objects which pass into the [[analyst]] by some kind of fantastic incorporation. | ||
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| + | Instead he argues that what is [[introjection|introjected]] is always a [[signifier]]. | ||
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| + | <blockquote>"Introjection is always the introjection of the speech of the other."<ref>{{S1}} p.83</ref></blockquote> | ||
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| + | [[Introjection]] thus reers 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> | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] is also opposed to the view that [[introjection]] is the opposite of [[projection]]. | ||
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| + | Thus whereas in the [[Klein]]ian account an [[object]] can be [[introjection|introjeted]] and then re-[[projection|projected]] ''ad infinitum'', [[Lacan]] argues that these two processes are located in entirely different registers and so cannot be conceived of as part of a single process. | ||
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| + | He argues that [[projection]] is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which relates to images, whereas [[introjection]] is a [[symbolic]] process which relates to [[signifier]]s.<ref>{{Ec}} p.655</ref> | ||
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| + | ==See Also== | ||
| + | * [[Ego-ideal]] | ||
| + | * [[Projection]] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | [[Category:Dictionary]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Jacques Lacan]] | ||
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]] | [[Category:Psychoanalysis]] | ||
[[Category:Terms]] | [[Category:Terms]] | ||
[[Category:Concepts]] | [[Category:Concepts]] | ||
Revision as of 21:58, 30 July 2006
"Introjection" (Fr. introjection)
The term "introjection" was coined by Sándor Ferenczi in 1909, in order to denote the opposite of projection.[1]
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.[2]
Melanie Klein uses the term a great deal, but restricts the term to the introjection of objects.
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Lacan criticizes the way psychoanalysts have tended to adopt "magical" views of introjection, which confuse it with incorporation, thus mixing up the orders of fantasy and structure.[3]
Thus Lacan rejects the Kleinian imagery in which introjects are internal objects which pass into the analyst by some kind of fantastic incorporation.
Instead he argues that what is introjected is always a signifier.
"Introjection is always the introjection of the speech of the other."[4]
Introjection thus reers to the process of symbolic identification, the process by which the ego-ideal is constituted at the end of the Oedipus complex.[5]
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Lacan is also opposed to the view that introjection is the opposite of projection.
Thus whereas in the Kleinian account an object can be introjeted and then re-projected ad infinitum, Lacan argues that these two processes are located in entirely different registers and so cannot be conceived of as part of a single process.
He argues that projection is an imaginary phenomenon which relates to images, whereas introjection is a symbolic process which relates to signifiers.[6]
See Also
References
- ↑ Ferenczi. 1909
- ↑ Freud. 1915c.
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54. Trans. John Forrester. New York: Nortion; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p.169
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54. Trans. John Forrester. New York: Nortion; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p.83
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.22
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits. Paris: Seuil, 1966. p.655
