[[Psychological]] '''projection''' was conceptualized by [[Sigmund Freud]] in the 1890s as a [[defense]] [[mechanism]] in which a person unconsciously [[rejects]] his or her own unacceptable [[attributes]] by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world. | [[Psychological]] '''projection''' was conceptualized by [[Sigmund Freud]] in the 1890s as a [[defense]] [[mechanism]] in which a person unconsciously [[rejects]] his or her own unacceptable [[attributes]] by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world. |