(For example, since metaphysics tells us that things at rest cannot move, we are inclined to dismiss any inkling of movement in an artwork as some sort of idiosyncratic, subjective projection on our parts).
This proposal has often been thought (e.g. by Meinecke) to mean that the interpreter should perform some sort of psychological self-projection onto texts.
In "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," Skywalker heroically casts some sort of Force-fueled astral projection to stall Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), affording the rebels a last-minute escape from a planet called Crait.
Some of my friends who are in their 30s have warned me of this sort of projection, but it was always easier for me to move forward if I knew what was next.
ELIZABETH KOLBERT: There does seem to be an interesting sort of projection going on here.
Mortdecai is easily read as a sort of projection of Bonfiglioli himself – part wish-fulfilment, part reproach.
Let me put my question another way: it has often been said that Antoine Doinel was you, a sort of projection of yourself.
More interestingly, there is an element of auto-critique in the way "Green" leaves Mar mysterious, as if this racism-haunted book (a sort of projection of the narrator's white guilt) did not quite deserve a Mar.
The idea that the universe is a 3-D "projection" onto some sort of flat, cosmic surface arises from the "holographic principle".
