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self-projection

  • a word derived from projection.
    projection
    noun
    a projecting or protruding part.

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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

Reality TV and self-motivation books and all that crap, they are all just forms of self-projection.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2010

Now, there is in the dark places of the human spirit—in grief, in fear, in vindictive wrath—a power of self-projection not unlike to this.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp