Here her'cataloguing of regression, repression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against the self, reversal and sublimation'helped establish the importance of the ego functions and the concept of defence mechanisms, continuing the greater emphasis on the ego of her father 'We should like to learn more about the ego' during his final decades.
32.
In an influential 1981 article " Some Clinical Consequences of Introjection : Gaslighting ", Calef and Weinshel argue that gaslighting involves the projection and introjection of psychic conflicts from the perpetrator to the victim : " this imposition is based on a very special kind of'transfer'. . . of painful and potentially painful mental conflicts . " The authors explore a variety of reasons why the victims may have " a tendency to incorporate and assimilate what others externalize and project onto them ", and conclude that gaslighting may be " a very complex highly structured configuration which encompasses contributions from many elements of the psychic apparatus . " Dorpat ( 1994 ) describes this as an example of projective identification.
33.
In an influential 1981 article " Some Clinical Consequences of Introjection : Gaslighting ", Calef and Weinshel argue that gaslighting involves the projection and introjection of psychic conflicts from the perpetrator to the victim : " this imposition is based on a very special kind of'transfer'. . . of painful and potentially painful mental conflicts . " The authors explore a variety of reasons why the victims may have " a tendency to incorporate and assimilate what others externalize and project onto them ", and conclude that gaslighting may be " a very complex highly structured configuration which encompasses contributions from many elements of the psychic apparatus . " Dorpat ( 1994 ) describes this as an example of projective identification.
