What is a Projection? Presented by James Hollis, Ph.D. 

My right ear feels lonely.

Unfortunately, many of us are unconsciously projecting our shadows onto one another which makes for a great deal of discomfort, confusion, and unnecessary anger. Dr. Hollis has a great video about embracing the shadow and Robert Johnson, of course, has a great book called Owning Your Own Shadow, a must-read for the human race.

This was wonderful. Thank you

if one actually wakes up from the hypnotic state that is projection it is literally being born again. And you'll have a hell of a laugh. And your life is now saved. Thanks, Doc!

We create the world in our own image

James Hollis and Jung are real OGs

Great video. Really covered it in a clear and concise way!

The way you explained it, I understand it so much better. Thankyou

Why do some get so many negative projections sent toward them when living with integrity?

Very good explanation. Thanks.

This was an extremely informative! Thank you so much 😊

Wow thank you. Very helpful. I have a lot to learn about how to use my mind better.

This makes more sense than other explanations. Projection is when we feel some quality is in another based on some past encounter(s) with some person(s) that was memorable or painful. When we anticipate having to encounter some person like those who were painful, we may then try to draw in a surrogate to practice defending ourselves. We project on to the hapless victim our wrath or manipulation in order to gain confidence for the upcoming battle with the real enemy. If would be nice to hear about how we can defuse these situations when we are the victim of projections..

These are good simple accessible explanations. Thank you

That was really well explained, thanks :)

Thanks for the beautiful explanation 😘

Great presentation

very very brilliant

Just here to say.. The music in the intro is amazing. Love that guitar LOL

Nice breakdown. I think I tend to Skew projections together with having Stereotypes or Intuition* about another persons potential behavior.. Often times being somewhat "Right", but knowing statistically and by experience, I could be wrong. I'd say these habits are Needed, but also see ways it can become a problem. This video should be in a Life handbook somwhere lol along with some of the current Dalai Lama's talks.. Practices of Self Control and understanding that can be applied to many situations in Life for the sake of Awareness.

but if you're able to talk about it, and recognise that you're doing it then it becomes conscious.

I was once accused for projecting, because I was accusing someone else for projecting. Is that even possible?

Fascinating...

Thank you

Great synopsis with practical examples. Very well done.

Thank you. I feel it's very difficult to get into anyone else's experience. I only have my impression of another person, which I can gradually refine over time, but my knowledge will never be complete. Isn't all of human society a projection, more or less? Words, pictures, ideas, countries, beliefs, cultures? A typical human reality is human projection; and we don't realise we're doing it?

In the case where their projections were their confessions , is it common for them to not remember what they said shortly afterwards ? If yes and it’s common for not to remember, then does that mean they forgot entirely what they even was doing for such an extended amount of time ? And perhaps that maybe explains the temporary memory loss of voicing initial projections? Is my text making sense ?

Actions speak louder than words.

in your heart

thank you Dr. Hollis. does the self or god image projects itself onto a n individual or society in the same way as you described? I'm reading Dr. Edinger's The Creation of Consciousness at the moment....kinda confusing lol

I've often wondered about whether what I perceived as "projection" was purely "projection", or a means to make a record of the way the person wanted things to be recorded and remembered contrary to the reality of facts to the contrary. Back in 1993 I was staying at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis Tennessee with a group of attorneys for Dr. Dan Orchic of the Shea Clinic's deposition. I have a photo of the boys, Dickie Scruggs, my partner, Fred Krutz, attorney for Florida Pneumatic, Tom Tardy, attorney for ATSCO, and Price Coleman, attorney for Rockwell International, taken in the lobby. It was a fine evening, and we went for dry-rub bar-b-que and then drinks. Finally, after probably too good a time, Dickie and I get in the elevator to go up to our respective rooms, and he turns to me and says, "baby, you know you don't make your bed where you make your bread" as if declining some offer that I had made, which if course, I had not. In fact, I had actively assisted him earlier at making the acquaintance of a young woman he wanted to meet by introducing myself and asking her to join us, which she did. Even describing this odd conversation, my eyebrows raise and my eyes get larger; at the time I recalled how he and our office manager, Carla Todd, had traveled to New York City together and came back talking of eating strawberries with champagne, something she had never done, and certainly something I was not interested in doing with him in private or public. I didn't say much in response, thinking the drink was talking through his mouth, and was grateful when the elevator reached my floor, and I was able to leave his company. The next morning, we met in the lobby before going to the plane and he was aloof and surly, I shrugged it off. While waiting for me he'd purchased for himself a beautiful, leather multi-colored braided belt. I love multicolor and went and purchased one for myself which seemed to aggravate him even more. Six years later, though it had happened before, none were quite as extraordinary as the next encounters or relevant to what would become our history, I was seven months pregnant and working away despite being high-risk with placenta previa and an incompetent cervix from cancer surgery in 1989. He told me that I had to take maternity leave. I didn't want to do that, but he was my senior partner, and said that he was only thinking of my health. As I was packing my briefcase intending to work from home as necessary, he came into my office, recently redone with light wood and blue carpet (not what I would have chosen) and sat across from me telling me that I had made a good choice to take maternity leave now and that I would be fully paid with no more responsibilities. Again, my eyebrows lift and my eyes get wide, but to this I responded, "I didn't want to take maternity leave, you made me". He didn't say anything and left what I later learned would be someone else's office and been for quite some time. The last time he faced me as his partner and employee was in January of 1997, my daughter was three months old, and I had arrived back to the firm before Christmas, six weeks after my child's birth, to find another attorney, my former secretary, Annette Clark Stringfellow's, uncle, Wynn Clark sitting behind my desk. I had terminated her employment, but later learned that she had stayed on the payroll. I still have the tape recording that I made that day where I can hear the tones of his voice telling me that I don't work there anymore and to take it up with Dick. I walked down the street and Dick was on vacation I was told, despite it being the day of the firm Christmas party, and went to pick up my 1996 bonus check that was routinely issued to cover the taxes on undistributed firm income that would come out on the K-1's. The woman who handled the accounting department said she couldn't give me the check and I asked why. She gave no verbal response, but instead slid the check over to me with the little square stick-um on that said, "Hold per RFS" and signed CB, Charlene Bosarge, his secretary. It was for $110,000, virtually matching the sum of undistributed income tax that would be hanging over my head and assets and now the additional burden of having no way to pay it except by liquidating my home and maybe then, not even enough. So, it was with this backdrop, after calling him on vacation and telling him what had happened with him telling me bluntly that he was on vacation and had no time to deal with that, that we met in the side room off the bar at Mary Mahoney's restaurant in Biloxi, where again, he spouted what was a projection of the reality he wanted to present. He didn't discuss the value of my shares, only my employment and that if I wanted the $110,000 check I'd have to sign a new agreement. Then he said, "this is what you wanted, you've been wanting to open your own office". Again, my eyebrows raised and my eyes got large, and I said, no that's not what I want. I want my job back". And what about the contract that's already in place? He ignored all that I said. Writing the script around me. Projecting what he wanted into our conversations and then into my life, so that no one would believe much of the truth at all.

It doesn't apply to everything. Does it?

I'm somewhat confused. Is the seeking of the familiar - that which we experienced as children - in interpersonal relationships (and often unconsciously finding it), is this an outcome of projection?

What's the distinction between "presumption" and "projection?"

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How about the question: what is not projection?

I'm reading the comments, and wondering does this always have to be a negative distortion, or is this a mechanism of communication? It seems unavoidable, influenced most by expectations, intentions and awareness. I'd be interested to hear thoughts on this.

My right ear doesn't understand it.

Is it possible that after an "abusive" childhood I want to help a child only concerning my own gender and around the age bad stuff at my home happened (fights, pressure etc)? I get emotional fulfillment doing this and I feel great about the child is this me projecting my own insecurities?

It's better not to use the world "projection" because people dont pay attention most of times we can only say : just because you woudnt do something it doesn't mean no one would.You are assuming everyone is YOU.

You look for traits and observe with facts, I don't wholly agree Doctor, Many factors bring healthy conclusions and smart decisions !

I still don't understand projection after watching this. Are expectations the same as projection? I thought projection is when you think someone else has the same motivations (positive and negative) for doing things the way you do. But that can't be right. Can anyone point me to a clearer explanation?

He is elegant

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So what is hard for me to figure out is whether someone doesn’t like me or I don’t like them. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about it but someone will engage in repetitive behavior (like ignoring me when I’m speaking to them) but then they be friendly and over time I grow sort of resentful of them. I’m wondering if they just don’t like me or I don’t like them because of their behavior, it’s weird and hard to explain because I used to believe I liked everyone, wrong! Lol

I feel projected on to the point I have lost my sense of individuality. I feel confused and cant do anything. I cant think and I am suicidal. Women are grouping together to emasculate me. Not random women but the women I've known throughout my life who have rejected me in school. Their doing everything to ruin my business relationships. I've lost my identity being projected on by 10 people. They've taken away my inner voice.

I seem to experience this from people a lot! I'm a very overt feminine man (I'm also a homosexual) I can't tell you how many times I've had religious fanatics (many closet case gays or bisexual) project that into me! I lost count of how many churches I've been to where this has happened! I am also on pain medicine for my pain doctor... I've had people project to me that I am an addict... Come to find out they are recovering one! I'm not normally a violent person but this projecting on to me is getting to the point where I want to slap them!

My wife is saying my depression is to do with woman

My left ear is silent.

On ne projicira on mrzi za pravo

any kind of wrong conclusion about the person sitting on the opposite end is a projection for example if you have not asked that person whether gaming or cooking or travelling is his or her hobby and still keeps gifting them related stuffs is a form of projection, not that they will always answer you correctly or honestly ,but asking them is the first step is this what you prefer or you like then i can spend my resources for that if you are actually in reality close enough and not in imagination

I've become triggered by the repeated use of the word triggered.

Is there any doubt that "Projection" cannot have the same definition among both Communists (because history may be guiding their perspective, and history must be expected to guide their perspective in the future) and also ALL non-Communists (because they think of the future as A [*SPECIFICALLY*] New Employer who Has the Right to have forgotten to meet his new employees [or any of his new employees] [in a successful tour-de-force against sanity], and they believe that it's not Groups who go to heaven and hell together, but rather That They, as INDIVIDUALS [whose prayers protect them temporarily from mental hospitalization], are each judged separately [AT THE END of the mortal lifespan which they imply that they have] [this means that there is no room in their culture for anyone to consensually interact with anyone else])?

Projections = predictions, expectations or priors. Optimized projections, predictions, expectations = Syntropy. Syntropy is dual to increasing entropy, the 4th law of thermodynamics. Teleological physics is dual to non-teleological physics Projections predictions or expectations are used to track targets, goals and objectives. The subjective is dual to the objective, the subjective becomes the objective, target tracking.

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Thats simple not true,,, quite often the MORE you get to know someone,, they are in fact VERYYYY different from us,,,and worse than we thought = NOT projection,, Yeshua tells us, know who you are dealing with, People unconscious, leave alone. Have to argue w James on his content. Not every time we critque a person, institution is prjection,, thats what some Jungains believe, Critque is healthy,, its when you are UNAWAREEEEEE of things inside you that you will tend to project. Things we deny about ourself. Understanding what /who The Other is, this does not equate to projection.

. *??? Do MEN or WOMEN 'PROJECT' more [often] ???* . hhhmmmmmmmm.....I wonder................

maybe our racist american society should hear this message ,our ignorance about others and blaming or fearing is a terrible specter in this land of greed &war,when will we ever learn

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Utter bullshit Always look for the new in everyone.

explains Democratic party and media... thank you sir.