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Meaning of "introjection" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTROJECTION

From intro- + (pro)jection.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INTROJECTION

introjection  [ˌɪntrəˈdʒɛkʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTROJECTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Introjection is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INTROJECTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Introjection

Introjection is a psychoanalytical term with a variety of meanings. Generally, it is regarded as the process where the subject replicates in itself behaviors, attributes or other fragments of the surrounding world, especially of other subjects. Cognate concepts are identification, incorporation, and internalization. To use a simple example, a person who picks up traits from their friends is introjecting. Projection has been described as an early phase of introjection.

Definition of introjection in the English dictionary

The definition of introjection in the dictionary is the act or process of introjecting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTROJECTION


abjection
æbˈdʒɛkʃən
bijection
baɪˈdʒɛkʃən
collection
kəˈlɛkʃən
connection
kəˈnɛkʃən
correction
kəˈrɛkʃən
dejection
dɪˈdʒɛkʃən
direction
dɪˈrɛkʃən
disjection
dɪsˈdʒɛkʃən
injection
ɪnˈdʒɛkʃən
interjection
ˌɪntəˈdʒɛkʃən
microinjection
ˌmaɪkrəʊɪnˈdʒɛkʃən
objection
əbˈdʒɛkʃən
postinjection
ˌpəʊstɪnˈdʒɛkʃən
projection
prəˈdʒɛkʃən
protection
prəˈtɛkʃən
section
ˈsɛkʃən
selection
sɪˈlɛkʃən
subjection
səbˈdʒɛkʃən
surjection
sɜːˈdʒɛkʃən
trajection
trəˈdʒɛkʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTROJECTION

introduction agency
introductive
introductory
introfy
introgressant
introgression
introgressive
introit
introitus
introject
introjective
intromission
intromit
intromitted
intromittent
intromitting
intron
introrse
introrsely
introspect

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTROJECTION

accreditation
action
addiction
attraction
auction
construction
course of action
election
fiction
function
inspection
instruction
interaction
introduction
out of action
production
reaction
reduction
reproduction
satisfaction
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of introjection in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «introjection» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTROJECTION

Find out the translation of introjection to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of introjection from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «introjection» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

内射
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

introyección
570 millions of speakers

English

introjection
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

introjection
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استدماج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

интроекция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

introjeção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

introjection
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

introjection
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Introjeksi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Introjektion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

取り入れ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

introjection
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Introjeksi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

introjection
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிரிலாப் பொருள்களுக்கு உயிரேற்றிக் கூறல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंतर्ज्ञान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

içeri alma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

introiezione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

introjekcja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

интроекция
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

introiecție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενδοβολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

introjectie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

introjektionen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

introjeksjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of introjection

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTROJECTION»

The term «introjection» is normally little used and occupies the 125.588 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTROJECTION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about introjection

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTROJECTION»

Discover the use of introjection in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to introjection and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introjection: Tony Oursler, mid-career survey, 1976-1999
Introjection marks the first mid-career survey of the internationally recognized video artist Tony Oursler.
Tony Oursler, Deborah Menaker Rothschild, Williams College. Museum of Art, 1999
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Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist ...
The concept of introjection was first formulated and introduced by Ferenczi in one of his earliest papers "Introjection and Transference" ([1909] 1956). A few years later, he devoted his essay "On the Definition of Introjection" ([1912] 1955) to ...
Esther Sánchez-Pardo, 2003
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The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis
of abreaction, binding, working out, working-through, and the work of mourning.6 But the Freudian background stops short of explaining the substance of introjection. In The Shell and the Kernel, introjection represents both the aim and the ...
Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok, Nicholas T. Rand, 1994
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The Language of Psychoanalysis
One might give to this process, in contrast to projection, the name of Introjection' ( 1a). In this article as a whole, however, it is hard to discern a precise meaning of the concept of introjection, for Ferenczi seems to use the word in a broad sense ...
Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, 1988
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Understanding Mental Objects
Ferenczi also considered introjection to be the basis for the later phenomena of transference and of displacement, inasmuch as the mechanism of introjection may be used for defensive purposes. Thus, he considered the mechanism of ...
Meir Perlow, 2003
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The Psychology of the Body
FIGURE 3.3 Introjection. In introjection, a person takes something in “lock, stock, and barrel.” He mistakes the will or desires of another person for his own. respect the fact that the child has an independent will. In an unhealthy situation, parents ...
Elliot Greene, Barbara Goodrich-Dunn, 2013
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Neuropsychoanalysis in practice: Brain, Self and Objects
Secondly, we need to define the personal and environmental context (i.e. the situation) in which predominant involvement of introjection in the task becomes possible. Thirdly, we need to define subjective–phenomenal and behavioral (and  ...
Georg Northoff, 2011
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Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Introjection Projection begins to operate at the very start of life, and so does another primitive defence: introjection. Like projection, introjection also involves a change of locus, a relocation, but this time in a direction opposite to that of projection ...
Susan Budd, Richard Rusbridger, 2005
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Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
In Klein's analysis, this means that every introjection is an introjection of the bad object; the good cannot be introjected. This is because, as Deleuze explains, Melanie Klein herself showed that the splitting of the object into good and bad in the ...
Gabriele Schwab, 2013
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Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal
The first time I heard 'blocked introjection' used in a clinical discussion was at a meeting at which Hanna Segal was the featured discussant. It was a meeting of the psychotherapy staff of the Yale University Health Services, some time around  ...
David Bell, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTROJECTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term introjection is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Psychopathology of Revenge
I fear that introjection has become a runaway process, that at this point revenge has eliminated an initially passive response to psychological ... «CounterPunch, Mar 15»
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16 Kim Gordon Quotes From 'Girl In A Band' That Are Pretty …
Gordon was a “terrible receptionist,” she was in a (failed) girl band called Introjection, and she made a silent surrealist film about Patty Hearst ... «Bustle, Feb 15»
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Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Kim Gordon's New Memoir, Girl in a …
The three of us began rehearsing. We decided we'd call our band Introjection, with Christine on drums, me on guitar, and Miranda on bass. «Vogue.com, Feb 15»
4
Which Literary Figure Is Overdue for a Biography?
... of Cats,” his 1996 New Yorker profile of Murray, “in Murray's hands, integration wasn't an act of accommodation but an act of introjection.”. «New York Times, Jan 15»
5
Nazification of Israel
... left Jews vulnerable to the psychodynamics of introjection—taking into oneself the mental framework and world view of the oppressor—under ... «CounterPunch, Nov 14»
6
The Enduring Allure of Badly Behaved Men—and What It Means for …
She uses the psychoanalytic term “introjection,” which refers to the unconscious assumption of the ideas and attitudes of others—the process ... «Pacific Standard, Nov 14»
7
Proto-Nazism on Exhibition
But the psychology of suffering was so intense as though breaking into another realm, what I am calling the introjection of the mentality of the ... «CounterPunch, Oct 14»
8
The science behind a broken heart explains all
'Normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience... the 'normally' ... «Irish Examiner, Oct 14»
9
Israel's Fascistization of Judaism
... authoritarianism, which, I have written about in CounterPunch articles, stems at least in part from the introjection of the Holocaust experience, ... «CounterPunch, Oct 14»
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Robin Williams and Grief: Why Do We Care About Celebrity Deaths?
Introjection means to take in the idea of the celebrity so it becomes part of ourselves. When fans of a newly-deceased celebrity introject, they ... «Decoded Science, Aug 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Introjection [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/introjection>. May 2024 ».
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