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Foreword. I want to use this chapter to present some examples which illustrate the use of the working scheme for conceptualizing projection and introjection and the levels of depth of symmetry-asymmetry, that I put forward in Chapter 9. The examples will also provide the opportunity for developing some additional points which may lead to a better understanding of the issues.
Fairly pure manifestations of each of the three components of projection-introjection were mentioned in Chapter 9. In this chapter I will study the details of the way the three components can be related to one another; the intertwining (never combining!) of asymmetry and symmetry, and, therefore, the availability of spacetime and other asymmetrical relations, in any particular example; and the structures, bi-logical or not, which result from the foregoing combinations.1
It seems that the only component which may appear alone is disavowal-denial-expulsion. In addition to the examples given in the last chapter the following is another.
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