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Internalization of another individual contributes to initial and later components of the superego. Such internalization is due to imagined retaliation by that other individual for one's fantasy of penetrating and controlling that other
from within. This fantasy of universal occurrence appears in many patients in defensively propitiative, restitutive, disguising, and expressive functions connected with fantasies of incorporation. The importance of this theme for the structure of the personality has been seriously underestimated by clinical workers.