Tag: Projection

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Projection is the psychological process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. It is most commonly used to describe a defensive projection–attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. The concept originated with Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalytic Psychology, and further developed by his daughter, Anna Freud, and others (Psychology Today).

  • Voodoo

    Voodoo

    The more aware I am of the losses I experience throughout the day, and the claims that back up my sense of loss, the more I am able to contain myself rather than projecting my unsolved mysteries outward.

  • Breaking Up

    Breaking Up

    Without psychological separation, we don’t know where we end and the other person begins. Our projections veil the reality of things until we withdraw them and set ourselves and others free.

  • Compartments

    Compartments

    When we give up our illusions of the Good Self, we see ourselves as we are: Smaller, less accomplished, more primitive, reactionary, and selfish.

  • Leaving Home

    Leaving Home

    A thread running through many dysfunctional leave-takings is that they occur between adolescents and their parents. The once-perfect child goes wrong and is ousted by parents who project their own lack of individuation through an act of tough love.

  • It’s all YOUR Fault!

    It’s all YOUR Fault!

    Only by “rendering the contents of the projections conscious” does a person take “a large step toward emancipation from childhood” and into the real, conscious, adult self.