introjection

Definitions

The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Sometimes the attempt⟳ was made to reduce⟳ the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own⟳ body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own⟳ self and organ sensations with the own⟳ body as perceived from outside.”

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