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What does "project" mean here?

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Rebecca

Great question! In psychology, "projection" refers to behavior like unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don't like about yourself and attributing them to someone else. For example, someone is feeling unhappy in their relationship, so they are trying to find problems and criticize their friends' relationships. This is what the singer is referring to when he says "projects" in this song here! Ex: Stop projecting your emotions and issues onto other people. Ex: She doesn't mean anything bad by it, I think she's just projecting her issues onto you right now.

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