The effect of projection is to isolate the subject from his environment, since instead of a real relation to it there is now only an illusory one.
Between the dream and the reality falls the shadow series#
Through projection one can create a series of imaginary relationships that often have little or nothing to do with the outside world. Imaginary Relationships, Disconnect from Reality due to Projection For all projections provoke counter-projections when the object is unconscious of the quality projected upon it by the subject. This is generally the case when the object himself (or herself) is not conscious of the quality in question: in that way it works directly upon the unconscious of the projicient. It frequently happens that the object offers a hook to the projection, and even lures it out. It is possible to project certain characteristics onto another person who does not possess them at all, but the one being projected upon may unconsciously encourage it. The general psychological reason for projection is always an activated unconscious that seeks expression.
One meets with projections, one does not make them. The subject gets rid of painful, incompatible contents by projecting them. Accordingly, it is a process of dissimilation, by which a subjective content becomes alienated from the subject and is, so to speak, embodied in the object. Projection means the expulsion of a subjective content into an object it is the opposite of introjection. It is the natural and given thing for unconscious contents to be projected. Unless we are possessed of an unusual degree of self-awareness we shall never see through our projections but must always succumb to them, because the mind in its natural state presupposes the existence of such projections.
Excellent examples of this are to be found in all personal quarrels. … Cum grano salis, we always see our own unavowed mistakes in our opponent. … All the contents of our unconscious are constantly being projected into our surroundings, and it is only by recognizing certain properties of the objects as projections or imagos that we are able to distinguish them from the real properties of the objects.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naïvely suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. (See also archaic, identification and participation mystique.) An automatic process whereby contents of one’s own unconscious are perceived to be in others.
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