--- In [email protected], "Kirk" <kirk_bernha...@...> wrote: > > > > Projection is an interesting concept -- explored in recent posts. > > In my mind, any great put down, or compliment, is potentially projection. > > When another sees extremes in others, good or bad, it raises in my mind > > the question -- "how much of this is projection?" > > > ---So when I am looking at Adrina Lima thinking how totally hot she is, I am > just projecting my own inner hotness?
Only you can say -- and possibly not even then. It brings up, in my mind, Plato's concepts of eternal forms. If Beauty is an etnernal form, and its found within each of us, then yes, seeing beauty in others is a projection of what is inside of us. But seeing beauty (or ugliness) in others might also be a compensating projection. That is, we lack something, and seeing more than meets the eye somehow fills that gap. Anyway, I am just speculating.
