Projective Identification

Projective identification is a term first used by Melanie Klein (1946) to describe a process whereby parts of the ego are thought of as forced into another person who is then expected to become identified with whatever has been projected.

The projector strives to find in the other, or to induce the other to become, the very embodiment of projection.

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