Projection: When the Dart Lands

This Jungian Life Podcast · Feb 20, 2020 · 55m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The power of projections to hit psychic targets serves both defensive and integrative functions. Projections are a natural aspect of psychic functioning, as we know from watching children at play: we first see inner images “out there” in order to experience them internally. Projections give shape to affects and archetypal images, from the hero to the healer, the derelict to the destroyer. We also tend to project our shadows outward, attributing disliked or undeveloped aspects of ourselves to others. In The Wizard of Oz Dorothy and…