WHEN, SPEAKING AS PSYCHOANALYSTS, WE USE THE TERM "INCORPORAtion," we refer to a fantasy (ordinarily an unconscious fantasy) of taking part or all of a person, creature, or other substance into one's own body. When we use the term internalization, we refer not to a fantasy but to a psychological process, and we are saying that a shift of event, action, or situation in an inward direction or to an inner locale has occurred. For example, a child imposes on himself prohibitions hitherto imposed on him by his parents: we think then of internality or inside-ness as having more or less replaced externality or outside-ness.

If, however, we ask, "Inside what?" we can provide no satisfactory answer. We do not mean inside the body or organism. Nor do