Editing Introjection (section)

===Freud and Klein===
In Freudian terms, introjection is the aspect of the ego's system of relational mechanisms which handles checks and balances from a perspective external to what one normally considers 'oneself', infolding these inputs into the internal world of the self-definitions, where they can be weighed and balanced against one's various senses of externality. For example:
* "When a child envelops representational images of his absent parents into himself, simultaneously fusing them with his own personality." 
* "Individuals with weak ego [[Personal boundaries|boundaries]] are more prone to use introjection as a defense mechanism."
According to [[D. W. Winnicott]], "projection and introjection mechanisms... let the other person be the manager sometimes, and to hand over [[omnipotence]]."<ref>"Winnicott, D.W. ''Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst''. New York, London: W.W.
Norton & Company, 1986. 50.</ref>

According to Freud, the [[Id, ego and super-ego#Ego|ego]] and the [[superego]] are constructed by introjecting external behavioural patterns into the subject's own person. Specifically, he maintained that the critical agency or the superego could be accounted for in terms of introjection and that the superego derives from the parents or other figures of authority.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Sigmund Freud|last=Wollheim|first=Richard|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1981|isbn=052128385X|location=Cambridge|pages=223}}</ref> The derived behavioural patterns are not necessarily reproductions as they actually are but incorporated or introjected versions of them.<ref name=":1" />