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"[[Introjection]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[introjection]]'')
The term "[[introjection]]" was coined by [[Sándor Ferenczi]] in 1909, in order to denote the opposite of [[projection]].<ref>Ferenczi. 1909</ref>
[[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>
[[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>
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.
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 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]].
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.
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>
==See Also==
* [[Ego-ideal]]
* [[Projection]]
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