gestalt

projection

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is a configuration of figures (what is being attended to') and grounds (what is being ignored or overlooked').

that individual experience consist of gestalts, which are configurations of Figures (what is being attended to) and Grounds (what is being ignored or overlooked)... (NET)

is grounded in the idea that people structure their experience as whole, integrated organisms, and not in cognitive or affective fragment.

The basic tenets of gestalt theory are that people structure their experience as whole, integrated organisms, not in cognitive or affective fragment... (NET)

is seeing in another what one sees in oneself.

Picture yourself at the cinema. The image you are watching on the screen before you did not originate on that screen, it was thrown onto it from the film in the projector behind you. In essence, this describes the psychological process of projection whereby an attitude, trait or quality is assigned to another (individual, group or object) and in the process is disowned by the projector(s). In the previous point, I described a particular manifestation of a process where the client splits himself. In projection, splitting also occurs but this time the aspect is thrown out onto 'the screen' of the environment. Simply stated, projection is seeing in others what is present in myself.

is a city built with no logic. It is a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons Dave Eggers

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