Incorporation

incorporation: expression first used by Sigmund Freud (1915c) in the context of what he called the ‘oral phase’ of development ‘Incorporation’ meant bringing objects from the external world inside oneself in order to achieve mastery over them, make them a part of oneself, and thus destroy them. The term had a developmental anchor in the infant’s tendency to put things in his mouth. It gradually developed a metaphorical reign over all forms of taking objects in (e.g., visual incorporation, anal incorporation);anon