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- One is called “ projective identification.” Projective Identification was first described by psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein. Here is how it works: Person A has a feeling they’d rather avoid, and so they project it, unconsciously, onto Person B. Many times, the projection fails, because the other person refuses to “accept” the projection.
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Jun 24, 2021 · Projective Identification was first described by psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein. Here is how it works: Person A has a feeling they’d rather avoid, and so they project it, unconsciously, onto...
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Projective identification is a psychoanalytic concept. As such, it is derived from clinical work for use in clinical practice, as well as for developing a theory of mind. Like all psychoanalytic concepts, it aims to express subjective experience as well as to articulate a psychic mechanism.
- Karl Figlio
- kfiglio@essex.ac.uk
Projective identification is a form of adaptation, communication, defense, and creative expression that permeates the core of many psychotherapeutic treatments.
- Robert T. Waska
- 1999
In psychoanalysis, projective identification is a defense mechanism in which the individual projects qualities that are unacceptable to the self onto another person, and that person introjects the projected qualities and believes him/herself to be characterized by them appropriately and justifiably.
Projective identification is a clinical enactment and part of the common currency of the psycho-analytic process that occurs especially around difficult nodal points at the deepest levels of our psychic organization.
What is projected is not only primarily a part of the client but a fantasy of an object relationship. This is often the reason why the therapist is tempted to act out and resist the pressure to be a specific object relationship that exists as part of the client’s object relational psychic structure.
Feb 16, 2009 · Projective identification is the basis of many anxiety-situations, of which I shall mention a few. The phantasy of forcefully entering the object gives rise to anxieties relating to the dangers threatening the subject from within the object.
