Making Others Live Our Darkness: An Unconscious Cry For Help
Channel: This Jungian Life
Date: 2024-04-07

When stressed, we can engage in a primitive — yet potent — type of psychological defense known as projective identification. Without even consciously realizing it, we can induce in others the very same darkness we find intolerable.

Projective identification is like unconsciously tossing our feelings into someone else, a behavior first noticed in babies with their moms. It's an invisible way we influence others based on our buried issues, avoiding dealing with our tough emotions by making others express them for us. 

Facing up to this pattern can help us understand ourselves better and grow. Often, this cycle kicks off with blaming others, triggering a domino effect that reveals deeper, hidden struggles within us.

This clip is from the latest TJL episode, "Why We Make Others Feel Bad: Understanding Projective Identification" Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/DtNmKk8usqA

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