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ın this article, the importance of incorporation is evaluated through the developmental processes of drives, object relations, defense mechanisms, identification and thinking. Since incorporation is one of the first steps in the evolution of physical life into the phantasy life, it plays a role in the development of symbols. ıncorporation has positive and negative forms and its psychopathological effects are examined. ıf the baby is cared by a “living” mother and if the baby could identify with this “living” mother these would develop into the cycle of introjection and projection. Different forms of this developmental process are evaluated. ın his article “Totem and Taboo”, Freud explained the incorporation of the father representation and its relation with the superego formation. Disgust and prohibition inhibit physical intake and direct physical incorporation to psychical life. ın “Mourning and Melancholy”, Freud underlined the effect of incorporation in melancholia. When a dependent relationship breaks, incorporation can cause melancholy. Green's concept of “dead mother” and Abraham and Torok's definition of encapsulated incorporated representation (crypt) are pathogenic forms of incorporation.
The contributions of Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, Otto Fenichel and Donald Winnicott on developmental and psychopathologic dynamics of incorporation are elaborated through the paper. The predomination of the primary process on incorporation can create fixation and an imprisonment in concrete thinking. On the other hand, when incorporation is activated or a psychological regression to such situations occurs; it is observable that the distinctions between love and hate, self and object, need and desire cannot be made.