Human Development
Projections
Description:
The blurred perception of another person that arises because the perceiver sees the person as an aspect of himself rather than as an other. It is neither an abnormal nor a disturbed condition, except when carried to extreme. Each person creates a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projections of this kind. Three levels of projection have been distinguished: (a) parallel projection, the most superficial form, in which a person tends to see others as themselves; (b) unconscious projection, involving the repression by the person of painful or unacceptable feelings and then perceiving such feelings in others (following Freud); (c) mythic projection, involving the projection of powerful archetypal images onto others (following Jung).