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introjection

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in⋅tro⋅jec⋅tion

  [in-truh-jek-shuhn]
–noun Psychoanalysis.
an unconscious psychic process by which a person incorporates into his or her own psychic apparatus the characteristics of another person or object.
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Origin:
1865–70; intro- + (in)jection
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in·tro·ject   (ĭn'trə-jěkt')   
tr.v.  To incorporate (characteristics of a person or object) into one's own psyche unconsciously.

[Back-formation from introjection, from German Introjektion : Latin intrō-, intro- + Latin -iectiō, -iectiōn-, throwing (from iactus, past participle of iacere, to throw; see inject).]
in'tro·jec'tion n.
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introjection in·tro·jec·tion (ĭn'trə-jěk'shən)
n.
The process of incorporating the characteristics of a person or object unconsciously into one's psyche, often as a defense mechanism.

in'tro·ject' v.

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