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===In learning=== In [[psychoanalysis]], introjection ({{langx|de|Introjektion}}) refers to an unconscious process wherein one takes components of another [[Personal identity|person's identity]], such as [[feeling]]s, experiences and cognitive functioning,<ref name=":222">{{Cite journal|last=Hinshelwood|first=R. D.|author-link=R. D. Hinshelwood|date=1995|title=The Social Relocation of Personal Identity as Shown by Psychoanalytic Observations of Splitting, Projection, and Introjection|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/245092|journal=Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology|language=en|volume=2|issue=3|pages=185β204|issn=1086-3303}}</ref> and transfers them inside themselves, making such experiences part of their new [[Psyche (psychology)|psychic]] structure.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jaffe|first=Charles M.|chapter=Introjection in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy |date=2018|title=Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_12-1|language=en|pages=1β2|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_12-1|isbn=978-3-319-15877-8 |s2cid=220278667 }}</ref> These components are obliterated from consciousness ([[Splitting (psychology)|splitting]]), perceived in someone else ([[Psychological projection|projection]]),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Malancharuvil|first=Joseph M.|date=2004-12-01|title=Projection, Introjection, and Projective Identification: A Reformulation|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11231-004-4325-y|journal=The American Journal of Psychoanalysis|language=en|volume=64|issue=4|pages=375β382|doi=10.1007/s11231-004-4325-y|pmid=15577283 |s2cid=19730486 |issn=1573-6741|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and then experienced and performed (i.e., introjected) by that other person.<ref name=":222"/> Cognate concepts are [[Identification (psychology)|identification]], incorporation<ref>A form of taking the outside world into the inner world, being focused on bodily sensation.</ref> and [[Internalization (sociology)|internalization]].
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