Jamal Awil

← Black skin, white masks

Projection protects equilibrium by externalizing shame. [causal]

Jung consistently identifies the foreign with the obscure, with the tendency to evil: He is perfectly right. This mechanism of projection–or, if one prefers, transference–has been described by classic psychoanalysis. In the degree to which I find in myself something unheard-of, something reprehensible, only one solution remains for me: to get rid of it, to ascribe its origin to someone else. In this way I eliminate a short circuit that threatens to destroy my equilibrium.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 667