Definition of "introjection" [introjection]

• The process whereby ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche. (noun)

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• "When external authority figures such as parents, teachers or family members communicate verbal and nonverbal instructions about physical and emotional survival, we coalesce those voices into one voice—The Voice—by a process called introjection internalizing authority figures."
• "Charismatic leaders are inner-directed and identify with objects, symbols, and ideals that are connected with introjection."
• "Placing less blame on Alice than she does on the social circumstances inspiring her heroine's turn to the bottle, Austen here looks at excessive appetites less as the result of an intractable will, than as the introjection of external pressures and repressive social codes."