In dime store psychology books for the dummy dumbfuckistanis, you'll learn that "projection" is something you shouldn't do, like picking your nose in public.
With a little training and vigilance, one grows out of this immature practice, and then just sees others doing it, so blind to their own failings.
More upscale psychology, closer to worth the money, will tell you "projection" is all you've got (in the more Plato's Cave sense) and so the game is one of "fine tuning" (presuming you're even grossly in the right ballpark).
If you make projection be your friend, and then spend the time, do the homework, to learn it as a skill, an intentional art, you might wind up with something more like a crystal ball in your own estimation.
Why we diss projection is it leads us astray. We believe our beliefs and that's rarely a good idea. Were projection to be trusted, like corrected vision, then that'd be a new chapter.
I do like Maurice Nicoll, the intrepid Scotsman, on this topic. He warns us to not identify with every thought or feeling posing as "one's own".
Many never even get to that first rung of the ladder: of realizing they have a choice, in terms of what inner voices to identify with.
How fast they climb from there, is anyone's guess.
With a little training and vigilance, one grows out of this immature practice, and then just sees others doing it, so blind to their own failings.
More upscale psychology, closer to worth the money, will tell you "projection" is all you've got (in the more Plato's Cave sense) and so the game is one of "fine tuning" (presuming you're even grossly in the right ballpark).
If you make projection be your friend, and then spend the time, do the homework, to learn it as a skill, an intentional art, you might wind up with something more like a crystal ball in your own estimation.
Why we diss projection is it leads us astray. We believe our beliefs and that's rarely a good idea. Were projection to be trusted, like corrected vision, then that'd be a new chapter.
I do like Maurice Nicoll, the intrepid Scotsman, on this topic. He warns us to not identify with every thought or feeling posing as "one's own".
Many never even get to that first rung of the ladder: of realizing they have a choice, in terms of what inner voices to identify with.
How fast they climb from there, is anyone's guess.
