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<blockquote data-quote="Admin." data-source="post: 485457" data-attributes="member: 1129">Projection<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/docs/editorial-process" target="_blank">Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff</a>Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bullying" target="_blank">bully</a> might be projecting his own struggle with <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/self-esteem" target="_blank">self-esteem</a> onto the other person.The concept emerged from Sigmund <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/freudian-psychology" target="_blank">Freud</a>’s work on <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/defense-mechanisms" target="_blank">defense mechanisms</a> and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Admin., post: 485457, member: 1129"] [SIZE=7][B]Projection[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/docs/editorial-process']Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff[/URL] Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bullying']bully[/URL] might be projecting his own struggle with [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/self-esteem']self-esteem[/URL] onto the other person. The concept emerged from Sigmund [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/freudian-psychology']Freud[/URL]’s work on [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/defense-mechanisms']defense mechanisms[/URL] and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology. [/QUOTE]

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