psychological projection

God, and all religious content is nothing more than psychological projections.

Every work of fiction is an exercise in psychological projection.

Some historians have argued that there is an element of psychological projection in conspiracism.

Recent empirical research has lent support to the theory that psychological projection plays a role in conspiracy belief.

The studio becomes a hermetic world, a psychological projection, in which body and architecture seem to merge.

He could not imagine the organ's mechanism for psychological projections, but he was affecting it.

Experiments can be focussed on undoing Psychological projections or retroflections.

This explanation, Ms. Ehrenreich observes, served as a kind of psychological projection.

The animae which inhabited them were departing as her powers of psychological projection deteriorated.

Desiring a reunion with loved ones, mourners may Psychological projection the idea that the recently dead must in return yearn the same.

Psychological projection is essential to the paranoid style of U.S. politics:

Contemporary plastic dolls are often thought of as the very model of helplessness, a convenient tabula rasa for psychological projection.

She suddenly understood, with chilling certitude, that Morrison's paranoia regarding poison gas was simply a psychological projection of his own monstrous agenda.

Psychological projection is one of the medical explanations of bewitchment that attempts to diagnose the behavior of the afflicted children at Salem in 1692.

Psychological projection can be established as a means of obtaining or justifying certain actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous.

Thus the possibility of psychological projection of patterns onto the rorschacherie of what in the end might be purely mineral processes had to be admitted.

"He makes icons that deal with the meaning of money on a lot of different levels, and the ironies and psychological projections that go with it."

Demos combined the disciplines of anthropology and psychology to propose that psychological projection could explain the violent fits the girls were experiencing during the crisis at Salem.

Modern anthropology assumes that religion is in complete continuity with magical thinking, that it is a cultural product, and that is a phenomenon of psychological projection.

The reason Nidell appears identical to Fenna is because Fenna is actually a psychological projection created by Nidell's mind.

It is often related to splitting, psychological projection, a desire to maintain a sense of purity in situations of real or perceived persecution, and rigid and unchallengeable attitudes.

This "masterpiece," however, is highly problematic given its original starting point as a male body-and its refashioning into a female one through the psychological projections and artistic expertise of a man.

The historian John Demos asserts that the symptoms of bewitchment experienced by the afflicted girls in Salem during the witchcraft crisis were because the girls were undergoing psychological projection.

Orientalism assumes that Western imperialism, Western psychological projection, "and its harmful political consequences are something that only the West does to the East rather than something all societies do to one another."

The results, literally a kind of shadow boxing, could be about many things: athletic spectacle as a psychological projection; racial invisibility (the boxers, all black, are both magnetic and not really there); the sexual charge inherent in contact sports.