Internalization

"Internalization" is the process by which a person codifies, consolidates, and adopts a set of beliefs, attitudes, or values. Role models can help with this. If an admired other displays a set of traits that we want to adopt, we are more likely to adopt those traits. Prearranged dogma or behavioral sets or schema or variously other-arranged sets of orthopraxy/-doxy. These are imposed from without but can be adopted freely and swallowed whole. "Introjection" is where the subject incorporates into his- or herself fragments of the surrounding world. So like for instance tonight and the night before when I took great big breaths of night air because it had become sweet and filling and nourishing again after long periods of thin inert air, I was in fact desperately trying to incorporate this healthy tinge into my own self. For example. No word so far on if there is a process for trying desperately to keep oppressive noxious fragments from permeating and corrupting one's sense of self/spiritual progress. In extremis I guess you would call that "denial". The permeability of spaces. (The safety of objects). "Individuals with weak ego boundaries are more likely to use introjection as a defense mechanism." More air I need more air I need more air.