Thursday, 9 October 2025

"The psychoanalytic claim that people project their inner world onto others itself entails treating others as mere screens for the self’s drama. It’s a meta-solipsism: accusing others of solipsism while enacting it in the very gesture of accusation.

This is where the critique folds back on itself. If I say, “You only see others as extensions of yourself,” I’m presuming access to your interiority — which is precisely the solipsistic move I’m condemning".

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"The psychoanalytic claim that people project their inner world onto others itself entails treating others as mere screens for the self...