ABSTRACT
Encountering Bigotry examines the occurrence of emotionally fraught and socially provocative expressions, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, and other forms of hatred of outgroups or others, in everyday experience. The editors categorize such remarks as projections, particular forms of perceiving oneself and others in the world. This projection allows the person to perceive emotional intensity without owning (i.e., without attributing to the self) the feeling or experiencing anxiety-producing emotions. Such projections are not pathological, they observe, but rather "faulty" and not beyond repair. Utilizing experiences gathered from various people and settings, and deriving theory from common psychoanalytic and Gestalt therapy, the observations and conclusions found in Encountering Bigotry are as applicable in any social context as they are in the therapeutic relationship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
On Mundane Projections
chapter 1|6 pages
A Common Occurrence
chapter 2|7 pages
Principles of Faulty Projections
chapter 3|11 pages
Invitations to Collaborate with Projections
chapter 4|8 pages
What Comes Up in the Invitee?
chapter 5|7 pages
What Is Happening in the Transaction?
chapter 6|8 pages
Variations in Projecting
part II|110 pages
Ways of Handling Projections