Introjection is about taking inside something
that’s outside.
So making it one’s own really,
taking in
qualities, feelings, emotions and so on,
that come from outside one’s self.
And again, in the process of development,
one
can see that children do this from their parents sometimes,
taking good things and make them
their own.
Or taking bad qualities and deal with them.
Melanie Klein’s work introduces a kind of
passion
into our experience which for me was really, really attractive,
so that she gave us a way
of thinking about envy
and hate and love and
rage
and you know, desire and all those things,
which I really appreciate because when you’re
involved in real world research, actually
going and talking to people about their experiences,
our experiences are saturated with emotion.
It’s a turbulent thing, you know. Even if
the turbulence isn’t felt on the surface,
underneath’s there’s quite a lot going on.
People are not aware,
they don’t have in
their conscious minds the sorts of conflicts
that they,
they experience
, or rather that affect them.
So that in fact the things that they desire,
the ways they feel about other people,
various
emotions that they might not like
to know that are
actually affecting their behaviour.
Like envy.
Like hatred sometimes.
Even though they might love somebody
but they might also feel hatred.
All those things are part of a social
psychoanalytic view.
One of the things I love about the approach
is that it does allow one to keep in view
the
person as a person, holistically.
And at the same time it doesn’t decontextualize people.
That is what I love
about this approach. That’s what seems to me so promising.
