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Thread #127613 Message #2858200
Posted By: Emma B
07-Mar-10 - 06:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: £800 fine for low school attendance
Subject: RE: BS: £800 fine for low school attendance
I found the posts of 05 Mar 10 - 06:25 PM and 05 Mar 10 - 06:42 PM very disquieting too.
Not, in fact, because 'Miss B' was quite obviously a barely disguised attack upon myself but because of the disturbed nature and the unrestrained spite of the content which I found distinctly creepy.
It did appear to be a classic example of psychological projection that occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.
This mechanism enables the mind to avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, redirecting their libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another.