Introversion

Term introduced by Jung to designate, in general, the detachment of libido from external objects and their withdrawal on the subject’s inner world, producing intense fantasies, preventing the direct satisfaction of sexual engagement with the real object. Introversion in the individual object does not escape, but does not seek satisfaction through this, but in fantasy attached to this object. Already, the timid, the individual escapes the presence of the object, which may or may not produce fantasies.

Example of introversion – the party, do not dance, does not approach the opposite sex, but is looking.

Example of shyness – the party, far from the dance hall, away from everyone and can choose to help in the kitchen.

Freud took up the term, but limiting its use to a transfer of libido from the object to an investment of training intrapsychic (internal) imaginary (fantasy), which should not be confused with the investment

libido of the ego (secondary narcissism). Introversion occurs mainly in the field pre-conscious, because shyness is characterized by unconscious formations (settlements deeper). Both are linked to the rigidity of the ego ideal, and the complex feelings of inferiority and insecurity. Introversion The term appears for the first time in Jung, the article “On the conflicts of the soul child, 1910.” Will be found in many later texts, particularly in “Metamorphoses and symbols of the libido, 1913.” The concept met after widespread distribution in the post-Jungian typologies (opposition between introverted and extroverted types).

Although the term has admitted introvert, Freud made reservations as soon as the extension to be given to the concept.

For him, the investment means the introversion of libido (desire, sexual energy) or fantasies about imaginary objects, in this sense, the introvert is a time of formation of neurotic symptoms, subsequent to the frustration and time that can lead to regression phases happier . Libido “… away from reality, which has lost its value to the individual because of the frustration that dogged it comes, and comes back to life phantasmatic, which creates new formations of desire, and strengthen the lines of previous formation will have forgotten. ” In “On Narcissism: An Introduction, 1914,” Freud criticizes the use of the term introversion too wide, that led Jung to designate the introversion neurosis and psychosis. Freud opposed the concept of narcissism (secondary), as an investment of libido on the ego, the introversion, which defines as an investment on fantasies of libido and designates the narcissistic neurosis and psychosis.