Projection (n.) in such cases is never more than the psychiatrist's own projection.
Projection (n.) explains nothing in delusion: the jealousy of the unfaithful spouse has nothing in common with the jealousy of the alcoholic.
Projection (n.) and introjection are not reciprocal: one belongs to the imaginary field, the other to the symbolic, and in a certain dimension they never meet.
Projection (n.) in analysis does not mean lending our feelings to others: what is called the internal process always comes from outside and is first recognised through the outside.
Projection (n.) in psychosis is not an inner feeling cast outward; what was abolished within returns from without.
Projection (n.) in psychosis has nothing to do with the confusion we feel about the motives of people we have mixed feelings for; it is what was left out of the subject's symbolization coming back at him from outside.