introjection
a. Psychoanalysis. The transfer of emotional energy from an object to a subjective image of it; internalization.
b. Psychology. The inward adoption of the attitudes, values, and expectations of one's parents or others by whom one is anxious to be accepted; identification.
introject verb trans. (Psychology) incorporate an inward image of (an external object, or the values and attitudes of others) into oneself
introjective adjective (Psychology) that is introjected; characterized by introjection:
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