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means Attributing your own unacceptable feelings, motives, or flaws to someone else, so the problem seems to live out there instead of in you.

from From Latin proicere — 'to throw forward' (pro- 'forward' + iacere 'to throw'), the same root that gives us 'project' a film onto a screen. Psychoanalysts in the early 1900s borrowed that image exactly: the mind casts its own unwanted material outward, like a projector throwing a picture onto a wall, so it can be seen and judged as if it belonged to someone else entirely.