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introjection
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introjection /in·tro·jec·tion/ (in″trah-jek´shun) a mental mechanism in which the standards and values of other persons or groups are unconsciously and symbolically taken within oneself.
in·tro·jec·tion (ntr-jkshn)
n.
The process of incorporating the characteristics of a person or object unconsciously into one's psyche, often as a defense mechanism.
intro·ject v.
introjection
[-jek′shən]
Etymology: L, intro + jacere, to throw
an ego defense mechanism whereby an individual unconsciously incorporates into his own ego structure the qualities of another person, usually a significant other. It happens early in life and continues less intensely throughout.


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Instead, it is possible to read Hurston as casting herself a role in Mules and Men in order to avoid the problem of introjecting others into herself (authentic ethnography) or projecting herself into others (the novel of authenticity), because "both processes require a stable sense of a difference between inside and outside, which therefore need identification" (Kilgour 210).
Reading Hurston writing by Laudun, John / African American Review
Rogers (1977) believed that individuals lose touch with their organismic valuing process, desert their inner wisdom, and abandon their ability to clearly discern through introjecting the value judgments of others and taking them on as their own.
Depth-Oriented Values Extraction by Colozzi, Edward Anthony / Career Development Quarterly
Psychologist Paul Fairweather (1981) proposed that the inner world of the human child contains a symbolic family, which is an innate structure, comparable to an archetype, and an imaginary family that is developed from introjecting aspects of his/her existential family into the matrix of the symbolic family.
The inner father by Krampe, Edythe M. / Fathering
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