projecting |
Working Definition:
projecting entails contextualizing the scene vis a vis one's worldview, ie. locating it in one's worldview.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"projection: in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories, the process by which one attributes one's own individual positive or negative characteristics and impulses to another person or group. This is often a defense mechanism in which unpleasant or unacceptable impulses, stressors, ideas, affects, or repsonsibilities are attributed to others. For example, the defense mechanism of projection enables a prerson conflicted over expressing anger to change "I hate him" to "He hates me." APA
Comments:
The difference between TRANSPOSING and PROJECTING is that transposing entails switching perspectives to accommodate another point of view whereas projecting entails contextualizing the scene vis a vis one's worldview, ie. assimilating it to one's worldview. In transposing, persons try to comprehend the other by modifying their past experiences, projecting simply locates the other person in their past experiences.
Though mposing and transposing are forms of interpretation--making sense of a scene, projecting frames (contexualizes) the scene.
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