Psychological projection
Projection
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Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.
Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.
Projection
What Is Projection?
Unconscious discomfort can lead people to attribute unacceptable feelings or impulses to someone else to avoid confronting them. Projection allows the difficult trait to be addressed without the individual fully recognizing it in themselves.
Unconscious discomfort can lead people to attribute unacceptable feelings or impulses to someone else to avoid confronting them. Projection allows the difficult trait to be addressed without the individual fully recognizing it in themselves.
Projection
Psychological Projection
Psychological Projection is the projection of one’s own shadow traits upon someone else, or even a group of people. Psychological Projection serves as a defense mechanism which temporarily alleviates someone from the pains of facing their own shadow. Projections may even occur unconsciously and unintentionally.
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Psychological Projection is the projection of one’s own shadow traits upon someone else, or even a group of people. Psychological Projection serves as a defense mechanism which temporarily alleviates someone from the pains of facing their own shadow. Projections may even occur unconsciously and unintentionally.
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