We may have been aware of the mental process of projection for a long time now. How we
might criticise or judge a person or a thing if they represent, to us, something we don’t
understand. Or a quality that we may not like about ourselves, but not want to own. And
so we say we don’t like them. ‘They’ are to blame, whoever ‘they’ are. Conversely but
similarly, projection may arise in the form of something we really like or envy in another- in
‘them’ out there- that we feel is absent or lacking in ourselves. A kind of greatness we
deem fit for others, but not us…