They argue that textual theory is prior to and more certain than interpretation which they treat as subjective projection.
Bourgeois thought, however, endorses this facticity and sees every possible normative stance only as a subjective projection onto a world of immediate facts.
(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).
95. Shapiro's own Marxian-Freudian interpretation of Van Gogh's painting which holds that for "an artist to isolate his worn shoes as the subject of a picture is for him to convey a concern with the fatalities of his social being" (Shapiro 1968, p. 140)—seems equally open to the charge of subjective projection.
Criticism of these and other studies has centred mainly on the limitations of models and the subjective, interpretive nature of projections based on them.
This region may be involved in generating subjective psychological states via projections to anterior insula, anterior cingulate, orbitofrontal and prefrontal cortices and in programming coherent autonomic effector responses (Craig, 2002, 2009; Grecucci et al., 2013; Zhou and Seeley, 2014).
Context is capacious, the arena in which all the people of the world project their subjective interpretations of form and content and receive the projections of others onto them.
The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self.
Indeed, many reward neurons in dopamine projection areas track subjective value [ 7, 11, 15, 16, 44].
Initially this certainly sounds, as Schapiro alleges, like a highly idiosyncratic projection of Heidegger's own subjective prejudices onto Van Gogh's work.
