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1794 Inq. Comm. & Doctr. Swedenborg iii. 40 Such is the rage of this New Sectary for allegorizing, internalizing, and spiritualizing every word and every object which they see, that I should not be surprised to hear some of the Baron's followers tell me by and by, that there was no such an animal as a horse.

a1848 W. A. Butler Lect. Hist. Anc. Philos. (1856) II. iv. 5 The very tendency of faith, when it becomes an abiding principle, is to internalize more and more our proofs and convictions of a future world.

1905 H. Jones in T. Stephens Child & Relig. i. 70 In the degree to which the self is free it possesses the world. It internalises it within the self.

1979 Duke Law Jrnl. No. 6. 1237 The Personalist, internalizing God on a one-man-one-God basis, leaves evaluations of interactions between the Godlets formally impossible.

2007 J. P. Manoussakis God after Metaphysics iii. 58 With Plotinus begins the long process of internalizing time—eloquent indications of which one can find from Augustine's distentio animae up to Kant's subjective pure intuition.

1915 C. McAlpin Hermaia xvii. 127 By internalising the sense-media of other arts it [sc. poetry] can weld together the subject-matter of all estheticism.

1967 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 June 502/2 In our own time these [traditional terms of bourgeois humanism] have been internalized by existentialism, and Herr Fischer follows suit. ‘Whether the world has any meaning..is a religious, a metaphysical question.’

2011 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 Sept. w17 A startlingly sensitive songwriter whose music internalized the influences of the Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, and the Everly Brothers.

1918 J. K. Hart Democracy in Educ. 23 The children, especially the boys, must take these customs upon themselves as their own real life; they must internalize them; they must identify their own dawning social impulses with them.

1945 St. C. Drake & H. R. Cayton Black Metropolis 773 As participants in the society in which they grow up they internalize the prevailing way of life of the community and make it part of themselves.

1968 J. M. Ziman Public Knowl. v. 77 He must internalize the scientific attitude so that he cannot even conceive of, say,..recording the epoch of an eclipse by reference to the age of the reigning monarch.

1989 R. Tong Feminist Thought viii. 220 So long as individuals speak the language of the Symbolic Order—internalizing its gender roles and class roles—society will reproduce itself in fairly constant form.

2002 New Internationalist May 10/2 It appears as though Muslims have internalized all those historic and contemporary Western representations of Islam that have been used to demonize them for centuries.

1930 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Civilization & its Discontents vii. 105 What means does civilization make use of to hold in check the aggressiveness that opposes it,..perhaps to get rid of it?.. We can study it in the evolution of the individual... The aggressiveness is introjected, ‘internalized’ [Ger. Die Aggression wird introjiziert, verinnerlicht]; in fact, it is sent back where it came from, i.e. directed against the ego.

1942 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 23 15/1 The atonement for guilt is here carried out by internalizing the attacked external object.

1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. viii. 203 The chances are that his aggressive impulses..will be internalized and deflected against himself.

1990 J. Bradshaw Homecoming i. 19 Jules..internalized her anger at men.

1995 D. V. Hunsinger Theol. & Pastoral Care v. 175 Once internalized, shame can be perpetuated totally within the self, needing no external person or situation to induce the feeling of shame.

2005 J. O. Balswick et al. Reciprocating Self iv. 74 If children internalize an anxious or hateful object, they will anticipate having negative experiences with other relationships.