ABSTRACT
The authors present a glossary of the new concepts introduced in the revised theory of the Self. They describe the revision of the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman theory of the Self. As development continues, the embryonic representations of Self and objects, consequences of early contact boundary excitations, become more elaborate and accessible to consciousness. In their excellent discussion of internaliations, Moore and Fine stress that all the aspects of the psychophysiological Self will be included in representations of the Self, and all the aspects of to-be-internalized objects that the individual finds important will be psychically represented. The Self functions to internalise the Field in two ways: assimilation and introjection. Since the concept of introjections is used in Gestalt therapy to describe a neurotic interruption of contact, when the authors use the term to describe introjection as a primitive mode of internalisation, they will speak of primary introjections.
