Three items from my notes from the Maya Kollman workshop:
You deny it, you marry it, you try to kill it.
We externalise our internal split, so we can see it and resolve it.
If I think I know you I have killed you.
Define: projection
Interestingly this one word generated some profound definitions:
Definitions of projection on the Web:
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your
own traits and emotions are attributed to someone elsewww.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
a kind of unconscious identification with the
object (participation mystique). All projections cause
counter-projections; that and being spellbound into living out the
projection are very close to M. Klein’s “projective identification.”
There are personal and collective projections. National or global
crises feed collective projections.www.tearsofllorona.com/jungdefs.html
the fundamental law of mind: projection makes
perception — what we see inwardly determines what we see outside our
minds. w-m: reinforces guilt by displacing it onto someone else,
attacking it there and denying its presence in ourselves; an attempt to
shift responsibility for separation from ourselves to others. r-m: the
principle of extension, undoing guilt by allowing the forgiveness of
the Holy Spirit to be extended (projected) through us.www.facim.org/acim/glossary.htm
a defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in
which what is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously
rejected and attributed (projected) to others projective tests
diagnostic tests in which the test taker “projects” some aspect of his
or her personality in response to the presentation of ambiguous test
materialsspecialed.peoriaud.k12.az.us/psygloss.htm
In Psychoanalytic Theory, the defense mechanism
whereby we transfer or project our feelings about one person onto
another. Projective Techniques A generic term for the psychological
procedures used to measure personality which rely on ambiguous stimuli.