Projection

What is PROJECTION?
===Projection is one of Freud's theories but it is also considered a Freudian theory because his daughter added on to it. It is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own thoughts and emotions which are related to the outside world. This involves imagining or projecting that others have the same feelings or motives, rather than what they really think.Projection is seen as a defense mechanism that occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then projected to someone else. An example of this behavior might be blaming another for your failure. The mind may avoid the stress of consciously admitting your faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and redirecting them, by "projecting," those same faults onto another person.Projection lets you cope with stress by expressing unwanted unconscious feelings by letting the conscious mind recognize them.===

Relating Projection to the real world In real life people use projectors to project text, pictures, and movies onto other screens. This real life situation relates to pychological projection because like the text and movies are projected onto other screens, poeple project their feelings onto other people.

When a lunar eclipse occurs the eaths shadow is projected onto the moon. This relates to pychological projection because the earths shadow stands for people and the moon stands for the people who are being projected on.

Examples
A husband is upset about the meeting at work that just passed and he is now very stressed and angry that he did not get the promotion to partner. Therefore when his wife asks him about his day because she knows that something is bothering him. He then starts asking her why she is having a bad day therefore he is releasing his stress onto her.

A woman who dislikes her boss thinks she like her boss but feels that the boss doesn't like her.