Incorporation

in paranoic states the libido has stopped in its regressive movement at the stage of partial incorporation (the third stage)… the kleptomaniac has taken as his sexual aim an oral incorporation of his object, while the paranoiac has made his its anal incorporation.

Abraham argues that fixation at distinct stages of incorporation—oral versus anal—determines the structural difference between kleptomania and paranoia, making incorporation the axis of psychosexual pathology.

Abraham, Karl, Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis, 1927thesis

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First there is a rite of separation, then a liminal period, and finally a rite of incorporation. The funeral rites belong to the rites of incorporation: they help the transition of the dead from the community of the living to the underworld.

Bremmer, following van Gennep, establishes incorporation as the third and concluding phase of rites of passage, through which both the dead and the surviving community are re-integrated into new social configurations.

Jan N. Bremmer, The Early Greek Concept of the Soul, 1983thesis

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final ceremonies symbolize a transformation of the dead, from physical beings to spiritual beings whose essence has been incorporated into the inner experience of the survivors.

Pargament argues that religious funeral rites accomplish a psychic incorporation of the deceased, converting external loss into an internal, enduring spiritual representation.

Pargament, Kenneth I, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001thesis

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We believe that ‘spiritual faith’ and a ‘way of life’ cannot be incorporated. A. A. can and will survive so long as it remains a spiritual faith and a way of life open to all men and women who suffer from alcoholism.

Kurtz documents A.A.’s deliberate refusal of legal incorporation on the grounds that institutional form would annihilate the spiritual essence the fellowship was constituted to preserve.

Kurtz, Ernest, Not God A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 2010thesis

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incorporation of social impulses, 270

Schore’s index entry locates the incorporation of social impulses within the functional repertoire of the orbitofrontal cortex, grounding the concept in the neurobiology of affect regulation and early self-development.

Schore, Allan N., Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, 1994supporting

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The ego center gains control over this aggressive tendency of the unconscious and makes it an ego tendency and a content of consciousness.

Neumann describes the ego’s assimilative act—absorbing the destructive force of the antagonist archetype—as a functional analogue to psychic incorporation during the developmental stage of the twins.

Neumann, Erich, The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton, 2019supporting

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the dead could be spiritually reborn into the world of ancestors through the assistance of an elaborate and lengthy funeral ritual.

Pargament surveys cross-cultural funeral practices whose logic implies the incorporation of the dead into an ancestral community, providing comparative context for the concept’s ritual dimension.

Pargament, Kenneth I, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001aside

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