Projecting

Taking a feeling you have and assuming it's the one the other has. You project your fears, for example onto the other.

The Opposite of Empathy

How projection became empathic accuracy.

Dec 30, 2019

Susan Lanzoni Ph.D.

"Empathy was no longer a matter of making up intricate stories but of correctly predicting another’s response. Dymond's revised definition of empathy appeared in her 1952 paper as: “the imaginative and accurate transposing of oneself into the thinking, feeling and acting of another” [3]. As empathy transformed into an accurate appraisal of how someone else felt and thought, its links to story-telling and aesthetic projection faded."