Projective identification is a fashionable concept. `We see it here, we see it there, we see it everywhere', just like the Scarlet Pimpernel during the French Revolution. However, in spite of its elusiveness it is one of the few concepts that describes and catches the process in and the relationship between the intrapsychic and the interpersonal.
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