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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>==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. 1915c[[SE]] XIV, 111.</ref>

--==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]] criticizes the way [[psychoanalysts]] have tended to adopt "magical" views of [[introjection]], which confuse it with [[introjection|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 ]] [[object]]s which [[pass ]] into the [[analyst]] by some kind of [[fantasy|fantastic ]] [[introjection|incorporation]].

<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> --

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>

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