Projections

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).