Projection is an unconscious process of seeing one’s own sho…
Projection is an unconscious process of seeing one’s own shortcomings in others. For example, a greedy shop owner may cheat many of his customers, yet consider himself a pillar of the community and a good Christian. How does he justify to himself his greed and dishonesty? He believes that everyone who enters his store is bent on cheating him any way he or she can. In reality, few, if any, of his customers share his motives, but he projects his own greed and dishonesty onto them. The main organizational pattern of the paragraph is: