What is the inclusion of this symmetrized space in $V \otimes \Lambda^2 V$?

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This question concerns Exercise 2.8.1(1) in J.M. Landsberg's book Tensors: Geometry and Applications.

Let $V$ be a $\mathbb{C}$-vector space, and consider the vector space enter image description here which is defined as the image of $V^{\otimes 3}$ under the map enter image description here where enter image description here antisymmetrizes the first two vector spaces, and enter image description here symmetrizes the first and third vector spaces.

For example, the image of $v_1 \otimes v_2 \otimes v_3$ under this composition of maps is $v_1 \otimes v_2 \otimes v_3+v_3 \otimes v_2 \otimes v_1-v_2\otimes v_1 \otimes v_3-v_3 \otimes v_1 \otimes v_2$. In Exercise 2.8.1(1) it is claimed that there is an inclusion of enter image description here in $V \otimes \Lambda^2 V$, where $\Lambda^2 V \subseteq V \otimes V$ is the anti-symmetric subspace.

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The inclusion can be obtained by chasing the isomorphism $ \rho_{23} \rho_{\substack{1\\2}} V^{\otimes 3} \cong \rho_{\substack{1\\2}} \rho_{23} V^{\otimes 3} \subseteq \Lambda^{2} V \otimes V$. This isomorphism is given by $v \mapsto \rho_{\substack{1\\2}} v$. The fact that this is an isomorphism can be seen using irreducibility of the modules $\mathbb{C}[S_3] \rho_{23} \rho_{\substack{1\\2}}$ and $\mathbb{C}[S_3] \rho_{\substack{1\\2}}\rho_{23} $, and employing similar arguments to those used in https://math.stackexchange.com/a/471255/748775.