The phrase "a case of projection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing psychology, behavior, or situations where someone attributes their own feelings or thoughts onto another person.
Example: "In this discussion, we see a clear case of projection, as he blames others for his own insecurities."
Alternatives: "an instance of projection" or "a situation of projection".
Two: The article was "pushing the idea that [Bernstein] was obsessively fixated on the figure of a 'Negro by the piano' (perhaps a case of projection on the part of [Wolfe])." In fact, Bernstein projected that figure himself in an apparition before the party and described it — "Within the curve of the piano sits a well-dressed Negro" — in John Gruen's "The Private World of Leonard Bernstein".
Perhaps it was a case of projection.
Wolfe reduced Bernstein's passion for African-American music to a caricature of racial tourism, pushing the idea that his subject was obsessively fixated on the figure of a "Negro by the piano" (perhaps a case of projection on the part of the author).
A psychologist might call Gonet's accusation a case of projection.
The institute added that the cuts are more a case of earlier projections having been over-optimistic, with new projections bringing figures in line with recent death rates.
(4.1) If (V_{j} subset R(A^)) and subspaces (Y_{j}) are chosen in such a way that A^Y_{j}=V_{j}, then there is a special case of projection method known as the dual least squares method.
Amateur psychology suggests it's a collective case of projection.
In what may have been a slight case of projection, Olbermann said that it was every broadcaster's fantasy, upon learning that the jig was up, to emulate Peter Finch's Mad Prophet from the 1976 satire "Network": "You go off on an existential, otherworldly, verbal journey of unutterable profundity and vision," Olbermann intoned.
Then we have a special case of projection method known as the dual least squares method.
This is a classic case of projection, of unconsciously displacing their own intransigent stance against Obama onto Teheran.
With a wave of his hand the shrink might conclude it was a cut and dried case of projection.
