#ego protection

[angelaeleni]

We fear what we don’t understand. Our judgements come from our fear of not understanding what we haven’t yet personally experienced.

Next time you find yourself judging yourself or someone else, ask yourself what you can learn from them and how you can better understand that perspective of them/you.

[herberthilliard]

🎭Psychological Projection: Ego Defense Explained

One sign of immaturity and or weakness is a person’s need and compulsion to belittle someone else. It seems that the person who engages in stereotyping and joking about others is projecting their feelings. They project feelings of weakness and inferiority onto others. This is a clear case of psychological projection. An emotion or trait like jealousy or inferiority that they dislike in…

🎭Psychological Projection: Ego Defense Explained