Projection
The defense by which what one cannot admit in oneself is seen, instead, in someone else.
From Sigmund Freud.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- The Shadow: The side of the personality one does not wish to be.
- Projectio: Casting the stone upon the metal to change it, and the psyche upon matter.
- The Prima Materia: The chaos from which the work begins: despised, everywhere, and everything.
- The Goat: Lust, vitality, and the one who bears the sins.
More from Sigmund Freud
The Dream-Work · Eros and Thanatos · Id, Ego, and Superego · Repression · Sublimation · The Unconscious · “Where Id Was”