ABSTRACT
The law of kamma relates to actions of the body, speech, and mind, but its internalisation entails that all of these are fundamentally marked by sankhara–the mind's action or volition. Similarly, in the case of projective identification, the transfer of mental materials is achieved by means of a plurality of interactions along various channels of communication through acts of speech or body, verbally or non-verbally. Projective identification is a mental action with a "kammic charge"; it is, in other words, reactive and, hence, generative, a constitutive part of the process of becoming. Projective identification is based on the wish to be rid of what is insufferable, or on greed for the object, expressed in a wish to control it from within. It is often based on the rejection of difficult mental materials and the wish to expel them, accompanied by envy, hatred, and destructiveness directed toward the object of the projection, and in extreme circumstances, toward reality as a whole.
