The Hebrew term dē'mut dē'yükōn, central to several folkloristic (aggadic) episodes presented in the talmudic-midrashic literature (ca. 100 BCE-500 CE) is evaluated in the light of contemporary psychoanalytic and object relational concepts regarding the quality of internalization of object representations. The term and its variants, which seem to designate an iconic representation of the human face that can be visualized, appear exclusively in seven texts. In each episode the quality of intersubjective experience depicted parallels the level of internalization associated with introject-level part-object representations. dē'mut dē'yükōn is evaluated according to select criteria for discriminating true introjects from other forms of internalization as discussed by Schafer, Blatt, and others.