Incorporation

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“Incorporation” is a psychoanalytic term introduced by Sigmund Freud to describe the fantasmatic action whereby the subject takes into and retains within himself objects from the external world. While designating a specific infantile mode of relating to objects, incorporation also has an important place in general metapsychology and in the psychoanalytic understanding of particular pathological disorders. Freud does not produce any one sustained exposition of incorporation. His allusions to it are scattered, and were considered sufficiently indistinct for the editors of the

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of Freud's works in English to include only one entry for it in the extensive index to the series. The subsequent writings of psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok have sought to clarify…

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Citation: Ray, Nicholas. "Incorporation". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 April 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5504, accessed 19 March 2024.]

5504 Incorporation 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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