ABSTRACT
The very simplest schema for the understanding of the behaviour of one person has to include at least two persons and a common situation. And this schema must include not only the interaction of the two, but their interexperience. The transformation of Paul's behaviour into Peter's experience entails all the constitutional and culturally-conditioned learned structures of perception that contribute to the ways Peter construes his world. The human being learns how to structure his perceptions, particuarly within his family, as a subsystem interplaying with its own contextual subculture, related institutions and overall larger culture. A great deal of human action has as its goal the induction of particular experiences in the other of oneself. Projection refers to a mode of experiencing the other in which one experiences one's outer world in terms of one's inner world. A vicious circle of mismatched interpretations, expectancies, experiences, attributions and counter-attributions is in play.
