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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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3) If, after reaching its most cephalic position, the notochord retains an attachment to the pharyngeal endoderm as it regresses toward the skull base, an invagination of the developing pharyngeal mucosa is created.
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And just as truth remains elusive in the quest for a reconstructed historical record, so do membranes create doubt, in their bewildering multiplicity and forms, about what they essentially contain: "The more I attend to membranes, to folding and invagination, enclosure and layering, the less certain I become that there is a solid body inside the skin" (Elkins 1999:43).
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It is largely skills-based, and therefore another statement of the paradigm shift is that of the invagination of the relationship between skills and knowledge.
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