Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection
Johnson on projection: the unlived gold we hand other people to carry for us, and what happens to everyone involved when they eventually put it down.
We hand our own unlived potential to other people and ask them to hold it, and Johnson short book is about what that costs everyone involved. Written late in a long career of making Jungian ideas usable without diluting them, it is specific about what happens when the carrier eventually sets the gold down, which they always do.
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Maria Popova
In his 2008 psychology classic Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection (public library), Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson groups all the possible lonelinesses into the three core kinds that pulsate beneath our daily lives and govern our search for love: the past-oriented loneliness of missing what once was and never again will be, the future-oriented loneliness of longing for what could be but has not come to pass, and what he calls “the profound loneliness of being close to God.”
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