Definition of "introjected" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of introject. (verb)

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• "In the analytic setting, the patient introjected or said "yes" to the analyst's interpretation by means of a similar act of negation."
• "The term "ego-ideal" refers to part of the superego that concentrates all the highest standards and agonizing demands that one has introjected from parents, the culture, recognized authority."
• "Whereas in melancholia the ego is vampirized by the introjected object, in mania the libido turns with ravenous hunger to the external world of objects; whatever appears before the manic's rapidly advancing probe is swallowed."