projections

“But the subtler contents never appear on the surface; they always come to light outside the consulting hour. I therefore asked her cautiously, `Tell me, how do I seem to you when you are not with me? Am I just the same?’ She said, `When I am with you, you are quite pleasant, but when I am by myself, or have not seen you for some time, the picture I have of you changes in a remarkable way. Sometimes you seem quite idealized, and then again different.’ Here she hesitated, and I prompted her: `In what way different?’ Then she said, `Sometimes you seem rather dangerous, sinister, like an evil magician or a demon. I don’t know how I ever get such ideas — you are not a bit like that.'”
C.G. Jung, “The Archetypes Of The Collective Unconscious” in Two Essays In Analytical Psychology

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