Does anyone "project" as in the pyschological term or aware they do it?
It started in my teenage years with a guy i had a minor altercation with at school and i developed a deep irrational fear of him.
Fast forward about twenty years and i i get introduced to a friend of a friend and i had the same reaction. Instant fear and dislike of him. Nothing he said or did, i just got really really anxious around him , thought he really disliked me.
He looked like the guy from school.
Ive had it with other people too, but on a much lesser scale.
I understand this maybe a form of "projection" in so far as i am projecting bad parts of my own pysche into them that i cant recognise in myself, like rage and hate??
So when i see them, i am seeing/experiencing a mirror of myself. An angry person being reflected back, is basically me but i cant dont want to see it repressed it, as i dont want to recognise this in myself
Anyone else?
It started in my teenage years with a guy i had a minor altercation with at school and i developed a deep irrational fear of him.
Fast forward about twenty years and i i get introduced to a friend of a friend and i had the same reaction. Instant fear and dislike of him. Nothing he said or did, i just got really really anxious around him , thought he really disliked me.
He looked like the guy from school.
Ive had it with other people too, but on a much lesser scale.
I understand this maybe a form of "projection" in so far as i am projecting bad parts of my own pysche into them that i cant recognise in myself, like rage and hate??
So when i see them, i am seeing/experiencing a mirror of myself. An angry person being reflected back, is basically me but i cant dont want to see it repressed it, as i dont want to recognise this in myself
Anyone else?