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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>
[[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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==See Also==
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* [[Ego-ideal]]
* [[Projection]]
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