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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 124259" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>In an effort to analyse all these various..."conversations" emerging from this incident of violence....those DGranthies blaming Prof darshan Singh..or the Sikh Lehr Gurdawra..or the Sangats for inviting such and such etc etc...and others calling ofr a BAN on this and that (most probabaly becasue they THEMSELVES DONT want/to wear the Kirpaan/or dont wnat the "inconvenience" and at the same time project an image of a Good Sikh ( Monas/Ghonas and those who dont wnat to keep Kesh.wear dastaars also suggest that Kesh/dastars are not essential ofr a sikh..the Anti-Kirpan lobby is just an extension of thsoe anti-kesh..anti-kachhera lobbies)..I came across a term called PROJECTION...in Psychology...</p><p>Here it is from Wkipedia...</p><p><strong>Psychological projection</strong> or <strong>projection bias</strong> (including <strong>Freudian Projection</strong>) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or <em>projecting</em> that others have those feelings.</p><p> Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves. Humor has great value in any attempt to work with projection, because humor presents a forgiving posture and thereby removes the threatening nature of any inquiry into the truth.</p><p> Paleo-anthropologically speaking, this faculty probably had survival value as a self-defense mechanism when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens" target="_blank">homo sapiens</a>' intellectual capacity to detect deception in others improved to the point that the only sure hope to deceive was for deceivers to be self-deceived and therefore behave as if they were being truthful.</p><p> One modern, radical view of projections is that they are prerequisites for normal social functioning. A person incapable of ascribing their own feelings to other people has great difficulties in understanding them. Unfortunately, human beings have done great harm laboring under the delusions of projection. This is especially true for historical cases of projection between ethnic or cultural groups, for example in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid" target="_blank">Apartheid</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" target="_blank">Nazism</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from January 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a></em>]</sup></p><p> In classical psychology, projection is always seen as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism" target="_blank">defense mechanism</a> that occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup></p><p> An example of this behavior might be blaming another for self failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and redirect their libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another.</p><p> Projection reduces <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety" target="_blank">anxiety</a> by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.</p><p></p><p>The theory was developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" target="_blank">Sigmund Freud</a> and further refined by his daughter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud" target="_blank">Anna Freud</a>; for this reason, it is sometimes referred to as "<em>Freudian Projection</em>"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3</a></sup>According to Sigmund Freud, <em>projection</em> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" target="_blank">psychological</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism" target="_blank">defense mechanism</a> whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[4]</a></sup></p><p> To understand the process, consider a person in a couple who has thoughts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity" target="_blank">infidelity</a>. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, they <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind" target="_blank">unconsciously</a> project these feelings onto the other person, and begin to think that <em>the other</em> has thoughts of infidelity and may be having an affair. In this sense, projection is related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial" target="_blank">denial</a>, arguably the only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism" target="_blank">defense mechanism</a> that is more primitive than projection. Projection, like all defense mechanisms, provides a function whereby a person can protect their conscious mind from a feeling that is otherwise repulsive.</p><p> Projection can also be established as a means of obtaining or justifying certain actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous. This often means projecting false accusations, information, etc onto an individual for the sole purpose of maintaining a self created illusion.</p><p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_%28psychology%29" target="_blank">Compartmentalization</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_%28psychology%29" target="_blank">splitting</a> and projection are ways that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego" target="_blank">ego</a> continues to pretend that it is completely in control at all times, when in reality human experience is one of shifting beingness, instinctual or territorial reactiveness and emotional motives, for which the "I" is not always complicit. Further, common in deep trauma, individuals can be unable to access truthful memories, intentions and experiences, even about their own nature, wherein projection is just one tool <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a></sup>.</p><p> <strong>Historical uses</strong></p><p></p><p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gay" target="_blank">Peter Gay</a> describes it as "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable—too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous—by attributing them to another."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[6]</a></sup></p><p> The philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach" target="_blank">Ludwig Feuerbach</a> based his theory of religion in large part upon the idea of projection, <em>i.e.</em>, the idea that an anthropomorphic deity is the outward projection of man's anxieties and desires<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[7]</a></sup>.</p><p> Psychological projection is the subject of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bly" target="_blank">Robert Bly's</a> book <em>A Little Book on the Human Shadow</em>. The "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29" target="_blank">Shadow</a>"—a term used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" target="_blank">Jungian</a> psychology to describe a variety of psychological projection—refers to the projected material <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[8]</a></sup>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Von_Franz" target="_blank">Marie-Louise Von Franz</a> extended the view of projection to cover phenomena in <em>Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths</em>: "... wherever known reality stops, where we touch the unknown, there we project an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype" target="_blank">archetypal</a> image". <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[9]</a></sup>.</p><p> Psychological projection is one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_explanations_of_bewitchment" target="_blank">medical explanations of bewitchment</a> that attempts to diagnose the behavior of the afflicted children at Salem in 1692. 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. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[10]</a></sup> Demos argues the girls had convulsive fits caused by repressed aggression and were able to project this aggression without blame because of the speculation of witchcraft and bewitchment.</p><p> <strong>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychological_projection&action=edit&section=3" target="_blank">edit</a>] Counter-projection</strong></p><p></p><p> When addressing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma" target="_blank">psychological trauma</a> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism" target="_blank">defense mechanism</a> is sometimes counter-projection, including an obsession to continue and remain in a recurring trauma-causing situation and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive" target="_blank">compulsive</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_%28psychology%29" target="_blank">obsession</a> with the perceived perpetrator of the trauma or its projection.</p><p> Jung writes that "All projections provoke counter-projection when the object is unconscious of the quality projected upon it by the subject."<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from January 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a></em>]</sup></p><p> The concept was anticipated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" target="_blank">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."</em> <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-10" target="_blank">[11]</a></sup></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 124259, member: 189"] In an effort to analyse all these various..."conversations" emerging from this incident of violence....those DGranthies blaming Prof darshan Singh..or the Sikh Lehr Gurdawra..or the Sangats for inviting such and such etc etc...and others calling ofr a BAN on this and that (most probabaly becasue they THEMSELVES DONT want/to wear the Kirpaan/or dont wnat the "inconvenience" and at the same time project an image of a Good Sikh ( Monas/Ghonas and those who dont wnat to keep Kesh.wear dastaars also suggest that Kesh/dastars are not essential ofr a sikh..the Anti-Kirpan lobby is just an extension of thsoe anti-kesh..anti-kachhera lobbies)..I came across a term called PROJECTION...in Psychology... Here it is from Wkipedia... [B]Psychological projection[/B] or [B]projection bias[/B] (including [B]Freudian Projection[/B]) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or [I]projecting[/I] that others have those feelings. Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves. Humor has great value in any attempt to work with projection, because humor presents a forgiving posture and thereby removes the threatening nature of any inquiry into the truth. Paleo-anthropologically speaking, this faculty probably had survival value as a self-defense mechanism when [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens"]homo sapiens[/url]' intellectual capacity to detect deception in others improved to the point that the only sure hope to deceive was for deceivers to be self-deceived and therefore behave as if they were being truthful. One modern, radical view of projections is that they are prerequisites for normal social functioning. A person incapable of ascribing their own feelings to other people has great difficulties in understanding them. Unfortunately, human beings have done great harm laboring under the delusions of projection. This is especially true for historical cases of projection between ethnic or cultural groups, for example in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid"]Apartheid[/url] or [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism"]Nazism[/url].<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from January 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[[I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/url][/I]]</sup> In classical psychology, projection is always seen as a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism"]defense mechanism[/url] that occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-0"][1][/URL]</sup> An example of this behavior might be blaming another for self failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and redirect their libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another. Projection reduces [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety"]anxiety[/url] by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them. The theory was developed by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud"]Sigmund Freud[/url] and further refined by his daughter [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud"]Anna Freud[/url]; for this reason, it is sometimes referred to as "[I]Freudian Projection[/I]"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-1"][2][/URL]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-2"][3[/URL]</sup>According to Sigmund Freud, [I]projection[/I] is a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology"]psychological[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism"]defense mechanism[/url] whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-3"][4][/URL]</sup> To understand the process, consider a person in a couple who has thoughts of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity"]infidelity[/url]. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, they [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind"]unconsciously[/url] project these feelings onto the other person, and begin to think that [I]the other[/I] has thoughts of infidelity and may be having an affair. In this sense, projection is related to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial"]denial[/url], arguably the only [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism"]defense mechanism[/url] that is more primitive than projection. Projection, like all defense mechanisms, provides a function whereby a person can protect their conscious mind from a feeling that is otherwise repulsive. Projection can also be established as a means of obtaining or justifying certain actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous. This often means projecting false accusations, information, etc onto an individual for the sole purpose of maintaining a self created illusion. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_%28psychology%29"]Compartmentalization[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_%28psychology%29"]splitting[/URL] and projection are ways that the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego"]ego[/URL] continues to pretend that it is completely in control at all times, when in reality human experience is one of shifting beingness, instinctual or territorial reactiveness and emotional motives, for which the "I" is not always complicit. Further, common in deep trauma, individuals can be unable to access truthful memories, intentions and experiences, even about their own nature, wherein projection is just one tool <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-4"][5][/URL]</sup>. [B]Historical uses[/B] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gay"]Peter Gay[/url] describes it as "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable—too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous—by attributing them to another."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-5"][6][/URL]</sup> The philosopher [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach"]Ludwig Feuerbach[/url] based his theory of religion in large part upon the idea of projection, [I]i.e.[/I], the idea that an anthropomorphic deity is the outward projection of man's anxieties and desires<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-6"][7][/URL]</sup>. Psychological projection is the subject of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bly"]Robert Bly's[/url] book [I]A Little Book on the Human Shadow[/I]. The "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29"]Shadow[/URL]"—a term used in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung"]Jungian[/url] psychology to describe a variety of psychological projection—refers to the projected material <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-7"][8][/URL]</sup>. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Von_Franz"]Marie-Louise Von Franz[/URL] extended the view of projection to cover phenomena in [I]Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths[/I]: "... wherever known reality stops, where we touch the unknown, there we project an [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype"]archetypal[/url] image". <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-8"][9][/URL]</sup>. Psychological projection is one of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_explanations_of_bewitchment"]medical explanations of bewitchment[/url] that attempts to diagnose the behavior of the afflicted children at Salem in 1692. 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. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-9"][10][/URL]</sup> Demos argues the girls had convulsive fits caused by repressed aggression and were able to project this aggression without blame because of the speculation of witchcraft and bewitchment. [B][[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychological_projection&action=edit§ion=3"]edit[/URL]] Counter-projection[/B] When addressing [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma"]psychological trauma[/url] the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism"]defense mechanism[/url] is sometimes counter-projection, including an obsession to continue and remain in a recurring trauma-causing situation and the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive"]compulsive[/url] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_%28psychology%29"]obsession[/URL] with the perceived perpetrator of the trauma or its projection. Jung writes that "All projections provoke counter-projection when the object is unconscious of the quality projected upon it by the subject."<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from January 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[[I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/url][/I]]</sup> The concept was anticipated by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche"]Friedrich Nietzsche[/url]: [INDENT] [I]"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."[/I] <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference">[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#cite_note-10"][11][/URL]</sup> [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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