Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scott was the first psychoanalyst to use the term and to describe the phenomenon of projective identification. He did so in this paper when he presented it to the British Psycho-Analytic Society, 21 November 1934, as an associate member, elected 1933. Melanie Klein’s footnote in “Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms” (1946, p. 102) said that Scott had “described three interconnected features which he came upon in a schizophrenic patient: a strong disturbance of her sense of reality, her feeling that the world around her was a cemetery, and the mechanism of putting all good parts of herself into another person—Greta Garbo— who came to stand for the patient.” She seemed to give Scott the credit for being the first person to name projective identification but then took it for herself instead when she wrote, “I suggest for these processes the term ‘projective identification’” (1946, p. 101) and “I suggested the term ‘projective identification’ for those processes that form part of the paranoid-schizoid position” (1957, p. 311). It is even more perplexing to read in that same paragraph from 1957, “Phenomena well known in psychiatry, e.g., a person’s feeling that he actually is Christ, God, a king, a famous person are bound up with projection.” This is the reverse of what Scott said. Scott’s patient believed “Greta Garbo is me” (projective identification) not “I am Greta Garbo” (introjective identification). Klein is giving “I am Christ” as an example of projective identification instead of the correct “Christ is me.” Phyllis Grosskurth interviewed Scott in 1981 (published in 1983) and asked him about those early days: I recall one earlier discussion of an early paper that I wrote in 1934, before the words “projective identification” were ever used. I presented a paper following which both Klein and Schmideberg spoke as to how they would understand this phenomenon of “projective identification.” I talked about projecting the personality into somebody else. A patient had claimed that Greta Garbo was her, not that she was Greta Garbo. Klein mentioned this case in the footnotes of one of her papers. I wonder what discussion that came from.… Grosskurth asked him if he remembered what Klein had said about the paper, and he answered, “She was certainly interested in this business of projection. (p. 14)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".