Cameron and Rychlak ("Personality Development and Psychopathology", 1985)
distiguish between three forms or meanings of internalization (pp. 50-51):1) Incorporation - actually taking into the body (either real or imaginary in fantasy) (I once had a schizophrenic patient who was very attached to a mouse he found in his house. When the mouse died he swallowed it, so he does not "lose" it). 2) Intorjection - symbolic incorporation 3) Identification - when the incorportaion/introjection makes one feel like the internalized object. Hope this is helpful, Danny On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Lee wrote: > > I believe this is essentially the opposite of "projection," and is similar > to "identification." It is taking something external, be it an object or > an aspect of another person's personality, and making an internalization > of it. For the infant, the first external object to be "introjected" > might be the mother's breast, for example. Someone else on this list may > have a better or more technical definition, as I'm working from already > overtaxed semantic memory system. > > Mike Lee > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Donald Kober wrote: > > > Dear TIPS, > > A student is doing work on Freudian defense mechanisms. He > > would like information on "Introjection". An example would also be helpful. > > Can anybody help??? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Don Kober > > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
