Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It can take the form of blame shifting.
According to some research, the projection of one’s negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life.
Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of crisis, personal or political, but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder.
Practical examples:
Victim blaming: The victim of someone else’s accident or bad luck may be offered criticism, the theory being that the victim may be at fault for having attracted the other person’s hostility.
Projection of marital guilt: Thoughts of infidelity to a partner may be unconsciously projected in self-defence on to the partner in question, so that the guilt attached to the thoughts can be repudiated or turned to blame instead, in a process linked to denial.
Bullying: A bully may project his/her own feelings of vulnerability onto the target(s) of the bullying activity. Despite the fact that a bully’s typically denigrating activities are aimed at the bully’s targets, the true source of such negativity is ultimately almost always found in the bully’s own sense of personal insecurity and/or vulnerability. Such aggressive projections of displaced negative emotions can occur anywhere from the micro-level of interpersonal relationships, all the way up through to the macro-level of international politics, or even international armed conflict.
Projection of general guilt: Projection of a severe conscience is another form of defence, one which may be linked to the making of false accusations, personal or political.
OK, snowflake. Project this.
Did or did not Trump have multiple affairs while married and with married women?
Did or did not Trump brag abut it in one of his books?
[[Despite the fact that a bully’s typically denigrating activities are aimed at the bully’s targets, the true source of such negativity is ultimately almost always found in the bully’s own sense of personal insecurity and/or vulnerability.]]
Psssst- Highbrow insults are a form of bullying
[[According to some research,]]
Well there you have it folks, some researchers state that if someone points out the obvious, they must be projecting their own qualities onto those they are pointing out- Pointing out the fact that trump bragged about his affairs must mean that those doing the pointing out must be unfaithful too- because ‘some researchers’ say so-
[[For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.]]
For example- a person who is rude, but not wanting to appear rude, will point out that other people are being rude, in such a way as to appear that they are not begin rude when infact they really are being rude- BUT because they use highbrow arguments, and insert obscure ‘research’ into the argument, they are convinced they are simply ‘helping others’ to ‘see the error of their ways’