Role in Self-formation 在自体形成中的作用 The specifics of the metapsychology of the self remains to be spelled out, particularly in the area of the relationship between the self-system and the constitutive agencies of the psychic apparatus. What is clear at this point is that the self functions as an intersystemic referent for the psychic agencies, serves to represent and express their content and relations, and is intimately connected with the vicissitudes of narcissism. The point that we are concerned with, however, at the present juncture, is the influence of the introjective components on the formation of the self. It seems reasonable to assume from the evidence that we have already examined that the introjective processes in these paranoid patients throw a particular light on the dynamics of the self and its emergence. We will have more to say about the introjective aspects of the self in our consideration of the genetic aspects of the paranoid process. But at this point it may be useful to point out the ways in which the defensive implementation of introjection influences the formation of a self-image and a self-system within these patients. 自体的元心理学的具体内容还有待阐明，特别是在自体系统与心理机构的构成机构之间的关系方面。目前可以明确的是，自体作为心理机构的系统内参照物，起到代表和表达其内容和关系的作用，并与自恋的变迁密切相关。然而，在目前的关头，我们所关注的是内摄成分对自体形成的影响。从我们已经研究过的证据来看，我们似乎有理由认为，这些偏执患者的内摄过程对自体的动力学及其出现投下了特别的光芒。我们在考虑偏执过程的起源方面时，将对自体的内摄方面有更多的说法。但在这一点上，指出内摄的防御性实现对这些病人的自体形象和自体系统的形成产生影响的方式可能是有用的。 Our emphasis on this point is limited to the appreciation that introjection is an essential dimension of the process of self-formation. Here again the understanding of both introjection and the self-system itself are matters of central moment. From one point of view introjection can be discussed in terms of its representational implications; that is to say that one can think of introjection in terms of the translations of object-representations or aspects of these into self-representations. But it seems to me that the representational view leaves out of consideration the structural reality of the self-system itself and substitutes a consequence of a formation of such a system for the system itself. Consequently introjection cannot simply mean the translation of representations, but must imply something which involves a structural effect on the internal psychic organization. 我们对这一点的强调仅限于这样的认识，即内摄是自体形成过程的一个重要方面。在这里，对内摄和自体系统本身的理解又是一个核心问题。从一个角度来看，内摄可以从它的表征意义来讨论；也就是说，我们可以从客体表征或这些表征的方面转化为自体表征的角度来思考内摄。但在我看来，表征的观点似乎没有考虑到自体系统本身的结构性现实，而用这种系统形成的结果来代替系统本身。因此，内摄不能简单地意味着表征的转化，而必须意味着涉及对内部心理组织的结构性影响的东西。