#Resource The two complementary moves by which inner life and outer world make each other. [[Sándor Ferenczi]] coined *introjection* (1909) for the infant's way of taking the world in on its own terms: what is loved is drawn in and installed inside as a good object; what is feared is shut out. *Projection* runs the other way — whatever cannot be borne inside is deposited out there, in other people, in weather, in landscape. Together they are not defences occasional minds resort to but the ordinary traffic of perception: Paula Heimann's point that perception cannot be divorced from object-relations (Heimann, 1950s — verify wording and source). The landscape you are looking at is never *only* the landscape. ## Why It Matters for Aesthetics - **The bad breast made good.** Damage the feared object in phantasy, expel it by projection onto the world, survive it, then take it back as beautiful — this is the genetic story of the [[Sublime]]: Sachs's mountains, turned from horrors into Romantics' cathedrals once they could be withstood ([[Melanie Klein]], [[Depressive Position]]). - **Landscape as projective.** Nature's *motherliness*, the calm sea's new menace — both read like internal object-relations projected onto weather and rock, which is why a psychoanalytic account can say anything at all about art and nature ([[The Motherliness of Nature]]). - **The loop closes.** Introjection makes the inner world; the inner world selects and colours what gets perceived; perception feeds new introjections. Klein's whole early drama — splitting, persecution, reparation — runs on this circuit, and [[Anton Ehrenzweig]]'s art does too: the artist takes the undifferentiated world in diffusely and gives back an ordered one that still hums with what went in. ## In the Forest - [[Melanie Klein]] · [[Sándor Ferenczi]] · [[Anton Ehrenzweig]] - [[Sublime]] · [[Depressive Position]] · [[The Uncanny]] · [[Oceanic Feeling]] - [[Unconscious]] — the dynamics these moves belong to. `Concepts:` [[Sublime]] · [[Depressive Position]] · [[The Uncanny]] `Knowledge Base:` [[Painting]]