精神分析研究所揭示的一种过程：指主体以幻想性的方式，将对象及其属性由“外部”导入“内部”。内摄与构成其身体原型的体内化类似，然而内摄并不必然和身体界限有关。
The internalization of authority. According to Freud, when you introject the demands of your parents and, thus by extension, society, these demands become a part of your own psyche, which then becomes divided between social demands and your own repressed, socially unacceptable desires and needs. An endless process of self-policing occurs as the super-ego reinforces parental proscriptions long after the parental authority has ceased to make its demands.