introversion
In psychology, preoccupation with the self, generally coupled with a lack of sociability. The opposite of introversion is extroversion.
The term was introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in 1924 in his description of schizophrenia, where he noted that ‘interest does not move towards the object but recedes towards the subject’. The term is also used within psychoanalysis to refer to the turning of the instinctual drives towards objects of fantasy rather than the pursuit of real objects. Another term for this sense is fantasy cathexis.
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