When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else.
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.
