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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>

Thus [[Lacan]] criticizes rejects the way [[psychoanalystsKlein]] have tended to adopt "magical" views of ian imagery in which [[introjection|introjects]], which confuse it with incorporation, thus mixing up the orders of are [[fantasyinternal]] and [[structureobject]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 169</ref> Thus s which [[Lacanpass]] rejects into the [[Kleinanalyst]]ian imagery in which by some kind of [[introjectionfantasy|introjectsfantastic]] are internal objects which pass into the [[analystintrojection|incorporation]] by some kind of fantastic incorporation.

<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>

[[Introjection]] thus 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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