Introjects Quotes

“There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.”
― Edward Gorey

“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much), are historical and public attitudes.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.”
― Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again

“The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.”
― Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again

“Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.”
― Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again

“The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your cousin Karen?" Jo's internal Karen was the perfect mimic of her cousin, and fulfilled Nancy's demand that the child be neat and organized.”
― Joan Frances Casey, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“Projection vs. Introjection

Anything, and anyone, that is observed, changes with every observer. The meaning the observer attaches to what they are observing is what defines it for them; it is not an absolute truth of that thing or person.”
― J.S. Wolfe, The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution