投影

• 読み: とうえい
• ローマ字: toei
• 漢字の分解: 投 (tou/na) — throw, cast; 影 (ei/kage) — shadow, reflection, image
• 発音: /toː.eː/

意味

Projection; reflection; casting (a shadow or image). The act of projecting an image onto a surface, or attributing one's own inner state onto someone or something else.

A suru-verb noun (投影する) used in both its literal sense (projecting a film, shadow, or image onto a surface) and its psychological sense (projecting one's own emotions, fears, or desires onto others). The psychological usage is borrowed from Freudian projection (投影 in Japanese psychology) and is increasingly common in everyday discourse.

例文

1. 壁に映画の映像を投影して楽しんだ。
2. 自分の感情を他者に投影することで問題が生じることがある。
3. 子どもへの過度な期待は親自身の夢の投影かもしれない。

使い方ガイド

場面: psychology, film, philosophy

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound of 投 (throw, cast) and 影 (shadow, reflection, image). Literally 'casting a shadow' — the image is thrown onto another surface.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Universal