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Introjection

The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.

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The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.

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Word	Definition
intrusive thoughtnoun	(psychology) An unwelcome involuntary thought, image, or idea.
ingressionnoun	The act or process of entering or intruding.
extrajectionnoun	(psychology) The projection of one's own psychic process to another person
implantationnoun	(surgery) The act of inserting a medical implant.
introsusceptionnoun	(medicine) intussusception
innerstandingnoun	Comprehension of one's own purported innate knowledge.
countertransferencenoun	(psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to their patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
externalizationnoun	The process of making something external, or visible from the outside.
instinctualizationnoun	The process by which something becomes instinctual.
self-involutionnoun	Involution in oneself; hence, mental abstraction; reverie.
introversionnoun	(psychology) A personality orientation towards the self and mental abstraction; behavior expressing such orientation.
indwellingnoun	A dwelling within, especially lodgement or habitation in the mind or soul.
interexperiencenoun	(psychology) experience shared with another person
projectionismnoun	(philosophy) The idea that individuals form an idea of the external world by projecting their own internal beliefs onto it.
symbolizationnoun	The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.
apperceptionnoun	(uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
introspectionnoun	(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states.
ideationnoun	(often business) The synthesis of ideas.
inwellingnoun	A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
subreptionnoun	(Catholicism) The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.