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Whereas [[projection]] is an [[Imaginary]] [[mechanism]], [[introjection]] is a [[Symbolic]] process.<ref>{{Ec}} p.655</ref>
===Projection===
====Explanation====
Projection takes one's own anxiety-arousing impulses and attributes them to someone else.
====Examples====
A husband finds himself attracted to a charming and flirtatious woman at work. Instead of acknowledging his attraction, he becomes increasingly jealous of his wife and worried about her faithfulness to the marriage. Freud would say that the jealous husband is simply projecting his own feelings onto his wife in an effort to reduce the anxiety he feels about his own unacceptable feelings.
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