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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==
==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 ]] [[object]]s which [[pass ]] into the [[analyst]] by some kind of [[fantasy|fantastic]] [[introjection|incorporation]].
==Symbolic Identification==
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 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>
==Projection==
[[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|introjected]] and then [[projection|reprojected]] ''ad infinitum'', [[Lacan]] argues that these two [[processes ]] are located in entirely different [[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 [[image]]s, whereas [[introjection]] is a [[symbolic]] process which relates to [[signifier]]s.<ref>{{Ec}} p.655</ref>
