In the course of these odysseys, his protagonists enter exotic and often menacing worlds that seem as much projections of fears or desires as they do real locations.
"I realised it was a projection of a fear," he says.
Satan is a projection of human fear, anger, and guilt.
Perhaps a projection of western fears; perhaps a misunderstanding of what the headline feats such as Sputnik implied about the rest of Soviet life.
Here, the tramp is truly the other: rather than a projection of our fears, he's a realisation of our romantically antinomian fantasies.
It's hard to resist the thought that Ward was the projection of British fears about sex, the scapegoat who was sacrificed at the start of the low, libidinous decade.
Monsters are the realm of the child's psyche, the projection of inchoate fears in concrete, quasi-personified forms, and even the ones that are meant for adults resonate with the unconscious.
At some point, one has to wonder whether the Israeli conception of the Iranian nuclear threat as a second Holocaust represents a psychological projection of existential fears rooted in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Her fate speaks to our current austerity-generated terrors: when cinema deals with homelessness, it invites us to enter empathetically into the shoes of the other in their misfortune, but it annuls that invitation in one and the same gesture by making the other a projection of our fears.
