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=====Definition=====
[[Projection]] is a [[defence|defence mechanism]] in which an [[internal]] [[desire]]/[[thought]]/[[feeling]] is [[displaced]] and located [[outside]] the [[subject]], in [[another]] [[subject]].
Cutting off what the [[superego]] perceives as "bad" aspects of oneself (e.g. weakness or [[homosexual]] desire) and [[projection|projecting]] [[them]] onto someone else "over there" where they can be condemned, punished, etc..
For example a person who has been (or who feels) unfaithful to his partner may [[defend]] himself against [[feeling]]s of [[guilt]] by accusing the partner of [[being]] unfaithful.
=====Sigmund Freud=====[[Freud]] and many [[other]] [[psychoanalyst]]s use the term "[[projection]]" to describe a [[defence|mechanism]] which is [[present]] (to differing degrees) in both [[psychosis]] and [[neurosis]]. =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] understands the term "[[projection]]" as a purely [[neurosis|neurotic]] [[defence|mechanism]] and distinguishes it clearly from the apparently similar phenomenon that occurs in [[psychosis]] (which [[Lacan]] calls [[foreclosure]]). Whereas [[projection]] is rooted in the [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]ship between the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]],<ref>{{S3}} p. 145</ref> [[foreclosure]] goes beyond the [[imaginary]] and instead involves a [[signifier]] which is not incorporated in the [[symbolic]]. =====Introjection=====[[Lacan]] also rejects the view that [[introjection]] is the [[inversion|inverse]] of [[projection]], arguing that these two [[processes]] are located on quite different levels. Whereas [[projection]] is an [[imaginary]] [[defence|mechanism]], [[introjection]] is a [[symbolic]] [[process]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 655</ref> =====See Also====={{See}}* [[Counterpart]]* [[Defence]]||* [[Dual relation]]* [[Ego]]||* [[Foreclosure]]* [[Imaginary]]||* [[Introjection]]* [[Introversion]]||* [[Neurosis]]* [[Psychosis]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbolic]]{{Also}} ===== References =====
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