projective
Americanadjective
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of or relating to projection.
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produced, or capable of being produced, by projection.
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Psychology. of, relating to, or noting a test or technique for revealing the hidden motives or underlying personality structure of an individual by the use of ambiguous or unstructured test materials, as ink blots, cloud pictures, or cartoons, that encourage spontaneous responses.
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This mechanism of projective identification creates a powerful yet unconscious contract between the two to keep enacting the same ritual.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
In such a mutually projective scheme, anyone who shows interest is disqualified.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
Smaller topological surfaces, the surfaces we call compact, have a nice classification: they are all combinations of tori and projective planes.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2017
Minnick goes on to say: “Projective processes” is Minnick’s preferred alternative for projective identification, which he calls “simultaneously the single most important concept in all of psychoanalysis and simultaneously the most confusing and misunderstood.”
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2015
Every theorem in Euclidean geometry can be dualized in projective geometry, setting up a whole set of new theorems in the parallel universe of projective geometry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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