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David Levine's avatar

...it gets even better (in terms of explaining the phenomena you're describing): in Projective Identification, the person (or group) getting projected upon experience the projecting person's complicated mixture of rage, love, need, fear, rejection et al and actually INTERNALIZE the projections. so, on some level, they actually become--to a degree--what the projecting person needs them to be.

ain't it cool?

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Elizabeth M. (Massachusetts)'s avatar

I can imagine that works in couples, families, and small groups. I resist the idea that I, as a Democrat, have internalized any of the steaming load of crap that Dumpster has tried to project onto Democrats.

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David Levine's avatar

oh god...so do I.

but if I decided to launch the famous ad hominem bullshit trope favored by psychoanalysts forever, I might argue that it's an Unconscious Process so of course etc. etc.. trouble is, the "unconscious" thing is all they got, and it gets tired.

no, I really don't think so either. what I DO feel much too much is BELEAGURED. and that's HERE.

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