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Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, 1924, Vol. X, p. 276.
Projection is to some extent a normal process, inasmuch as it is connected with the imperfect differentiation of Self and Outer World—a differentiation that only takes place gradually during individual development and racial evolution, and that is not complete even in the civilized adult. Pathological projection may be distinguished by its abnormal degree or unusual content. Abnormal degree of projection may be due to a general tendency to introversion, as the result of which inner experience unduly influences outer perceptions. A detailed consideration of some of the relations between introversion and repression seems to show that the introverted condition rather than the occurrence of repression is the chief determining factor in projection. As regards unusual content of projection the author makes use of Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious, which, he suggests, explains the archaic elements or projection encountered in Schizophrenia—elements that are an inheritance from a remote stage of racial development in which there was only an imperfect distinction between the personality and the outside world.