Doctor Dean: That’s called “projection”.
And for those who don’t know where that came from,
According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one “projects” one’s own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. ‘Emotions or excitations which the ego tries to ward off are “spit out” and then felt as being outside the ego...perceived in another person’. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree. The related defence of ‘projective identification differs from projection in that the impulse projected onto an external object does not appear as something alien and distant from the ego because the connection of the self with that projected impulse continues’.
Exactly right. Project much there, Howard?