Introjection

(2) introjection: term introduced by Sandor Ferenczi (1909) for a process opposite of projection and later adapted by Karl Abraham (1924) and Melanie Klein (1937). This term had lesser somatic foundations and involved taking the whole or part object in. Its end products (‘introjects’) could reside in different parts of the psychic structure (e.g., ego introjects, superego introjects). However, the organized cluster of memory traces consequent upon introjection remained unassimilated into the total self image;Anon