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Introjected hostility theory

Introjected hostility theory refers to Freud's theory explaining how depressive people, being too frightened to express their rage for their rejection outwardly, turn their anger inward on parts of their own egos; their self -blame and punishment is actually blame and punishment intended for others who have abandoned them

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