The Telltale Signs of Projection
Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM The Telltale Signs of Projection "Projection" is a term that many psychologists use to describe the manner in which we externalize our inner condition. ADVERTISEMENT In other words, when we project, we're blind to something that's going on inside us and instead we mistake it for something that seems to exist out there in the world. And projection is nearly always followed by a reaction. ADVERTISEMENT What drives our tendency to project? The Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote that what we're unwilling to face in the inner world, we'll meet in the outer world as "fate". ADVERTISEMENT What this suggests is that we project onto our environment when we don't want to feel something. For instance, imagine that you're upset, and have resolved to tamp it down and go into work with