The word "internalizing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to psychology, education, or personal development, referring to the process of incorporating external ideas or behaviors into one's own beliefs or actions. Example: "Through therapy, she began internalizing the coping strategies that would help her manage her anxiety." Alternatives include "absorbing" or "integrating."
Whereas Clift was a genius at internalizing a character's desire — and showing that internalization through a subtle shift of his shoulders, or turning his face away from a truth his character cannot face — Brando was an ego with an interest in its own body.
The first is externalizing behaviour, such as aggression and hyperactivity, and the second is internalizing behaviour, such as depression and anxiety.
For example, a large percentage of variability in the types of mental illness characterized as "internalizing"—such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, phobia, and hysteria can be explained by a general dimension of neuroticism.
When Chu, an aspiring voiceover artist from Ohio, first found out that he had made it onto "Jeopardy!," he went home, searched online for "Jeopardy strategies," and spent a month internalizing what he learned.
As the psychoanalyst Hans Loewald wrote in 1960, it is by remembering and internalizing new experiences with the therapist that patients can "turn ghosts into ancestors".
Internalizing the values of white America, the people Jefferson writes about know that they must be "impeccable but not arrogant; confident yet obliging; dignified, not intrusive".
In those moments, you're less likely to deliberate, more likely to just say yes to something without fully internalizing it, and more prone to ignore everything that's outside the focus of your immediate attention.
Violence, sex, acting out, internalizing the judgment of others: Othello becomes, in Cyprus's rocky terrain, Bigger Thomas's elder.
That, after all, is the point of "Hot Topic": listening to and internalizing your predecessors' work can actually help you make something new.
In Sartre's analysis, anti-Semitism emerged as a seductively self-sparing form of "sadism"; he called the anti-Semite a "coward" and a "malcontent who dares not revolt from fear of the consequences of his rebellion," and he faulted the "inauthentic Jew," with his "perpetual oscillation between pride and a sense of inferiority," for internalizing the anti-Semite's hatred.
