Definition of "introject" []

• To incorporate (characteristics of a person or object) into one's own psyche unconsciously. (verb-transitive)

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• "In this new novel, recently longlisted for the Booker, he creates aprotagonist so desperate to locate a sense of belonging and acceptance that he is driven to introject the history and culture of an entire people."
• "It is no business of courts to introject their own economic ideas and doctrines into the matter, and they have no right to take the power to make these choices away from the political branches."
• "I believe psychology tells us the offspring inherits or is imprinted with this “introject” or flawed perspectives on the world, with less than adequate love and caring and the offspring carries that eternal need within it."