The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
Projection: It’s Many Forms
Notice: Bookings will open 1st December 2025

Projection is as basic to the psyche as breathing is to our body. It establishes a network of relationships to our world and to each other. And, “we always see our unavowed mistakes in our opponent” (CW 8, 507). Left undiscovered, the two way traffic of projection can cause divisiveness, even danger. If dissolved and related to, projection expands bonds to each other, to our deeper psyche and to greater reality beyond psyche. With this lecture and discussion we will explore different meanings of projection among psychoanalytic theorists and emphasize Jung’s unique contribution to understanding this phenomenon.