We are currently awaiting some very substantive, researched, background and proprietary information, regarding the events which surround the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.
However, in advance of the information it is perhaps important to revisit the substance of our position from the outset of initial interest in this case; And, more importantly, discuss two specific principles which have caused some readers to erroneously reconcile information gleaned from the spotlight of our research: Projection and Transference:
Projection – where a person subconsciously denies his or her own negative attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world instead; or a person affirms their own positive attributes by ascribing positive intent toward the behavior of another.
Thus, projection involves projecting faults or attributes of altruism onto others.
Projection can also be established as a means of justifying a person bearing witness to certain actions that would normally be considered intolerable.
This often means projecting false altruism toward an individual for the sole purpose of maintaining a self-created illusion.
One of the many problems with this process whereby ‘something dangerous that is observed can be justified’, or shifted, from actual expressed intent into a false belief of assigned honesty – ergo a process of “projection”‘ – Danger lies in the approach because as a result the projector may become somewhat cognitively depleted and rendered limp in objectivity. (more…)
