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interiorization

interiorization

9.1
Making beliefs or feelings part of a person's thinking
  • noun
  • /ɪnˌtɪəriəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : interiorización
  • This domestic regime enabled metaphors of containment to slide between the concepts of woman-home-state while fostering notions of privacy, safety, security, and ultimately, interiorization.

Examples

  • This interiorization defines the shift from a medical to a psychoanalytic conception of the wound that is the trauma.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Through interiorization, she began to reflect on her feelings and understand her emotions better.

  • On the "interiorization" of 19th-century culture, see R. Sennett, The Fall of Public Man, New York, 1974, 250-340.

    Academic text (1993)
  • His death permanently closes the possibility of any communication between them; she must resort to the interiorization of the sexual experience through fantasizing, masturbation, and ultimately necrophilia.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Authority and responsibility moved into the individual's mind, just as the interiorization of values became a prominent element of nineteenth-century children's education, as seen, for instance, in Andersen's "Little Ida's Flowers."

    Academic text (2000)
  • We find in it, as well, the interiorization of the evangelization ideology as a dominant element in the explanation of current Teenek credo (cf. Hawkins 1984).

    Academic text (2008)
  • The interiorization of societal values in education encourages children to develop their moral compasses.

  • He practiced interiorization by journaling regularly, allowing him to process his thoughts more deeply.

Synonyms

internalization
vsinteriorization
  • Specialized
2 7.7

The process of making beliefs or ways of behaving part of a person's thinking and actions

is the general process of making things internal in thoughts feelings or behavior
introjection
vsinteriorization
  • Specialized
9.9

Accepting other people's values or beliefs into your own thinking without being aware

is a broader process of making ideas part of self not only unconscious uptake

How Internalized

integration
47 4.0
interiorization
  • Specialized
9.1
acceptance
104 2.7
recognition
38 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

interiorization = interiorize (semi-transparent) = interior + ize + ation

Formation from 'interior' is regular, but the abstract psychological meaning ('make internal') is metaphorical and may not be obvious to learners who only know physical 'interior'.

Etymology

The word interiorization comes from interior meaning 'inside' and the ending -ization meaning 'the process of', similar to the common word internalize. So it means making something internal — for example when a value or feeling becomes part of your inner thoughts and behavior.