projection

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is a defense mechanism whereby one attributes one's own thoughts or motives to another person.

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 the idea that when someone offers a string of reproaches against other people, they are likely hinting at a string of self-reproaches with the self-same content.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. Sigmund Freud

 makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face. Carl Jung

is the idea that the sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them. Henry Miller

is the notion that man only attains existence when he is what he purposes to be, not what he may wish to be.

Before that projection of the self nothing exist... not even in the heaven of intelligence: man will only attain existence when he is what he purposes to be. Not, however, what he may wish to be. (sartre, existentialism is a humanism .pdf)

is the extraordinarily common psychic phenomenon whereby all that is unconscious in ourselves we discover in our neighbor, and we treat him accordingly.

Projection is one of the commonest psychic phenomena. It is the same as participation mystique, which Lévy-Bruhl, to his great credit, emphasized as being an especially characteristic feature of primitive man. We merely give it another name, and as a rule deny that we are guilty of it. Everything that is unconscious in ourselves we discover in our neighbour, and we treat him accordingly.

is a process that changes the world into the replica of one's unknown face.

Projections change the world into the replica of one's unknown face.

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