Example Sentences

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Mr. Stiles takes a clear-eyed view of Churchill’s self-projection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Several lines of work seem to converge on the idea that self-projection is a valuable exercise.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2015

Hers was personal and object-intensive, an art of both self-projection and self-erasure through the medium of handmade things.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014

Freud also writes about a more primitive use of the double, as a narcissistic self-projection a child might produce as a kind of talisman against its first realisation of death.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013

It is self-projection into the self, the sensuous self satisfied in a projected self.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)