[Bases or projection theory. I]

In psycho(patho)logy the term "projection"marks both a series of characteristic phenomena and the model by which we interpret and explain them. The conglutination of describing and explaining may especially be observed in the psychoanalytic use of the notion. The present study does not perform a theory-suspending phenomenological analysis but receives the model of projection as a given one explicating its implications. Part I discussess its historical suppositions, while the following part II will expose the implications concluded within the model of projection as such. The purpose is to comprehend the possibility of projecting (e.g. as a mechanism of defence) within the dialectics (respective ambiguity) of the human I-world-relations.