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a1456ea "You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure." projection misogyny sexism John Berger
f7a2c1b What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. motherhood projection childhood psychology Margaret Atwood
1d050e0 The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. mind projection Arthur C. Clarke
0ee0f4b The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects. world relational-nature subject subjectivity projection self Maurice Merleau-Ponty
dabe36e The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure. bad-behaviour mean self-distancing self-hate projection Victoria Holt
c4ea890 You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble. image image-about-yourself projection self-image self-esteem Victoria Holt
13413e6 Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections. myth politics fantasy drives urges projection power Frank Herbert
b49b2b3 The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known. individual idols projection Erich Fromm
651406c C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoule en eux - sur les autres. parano refoulé projection paranoia Jean Anouilh