Gaslighting vs. Projection — What's the Difference?

Gaslighting is a colloquialism for a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator is successful in having the target (a person or a group of people) question their own reality, memory or perceptions. There is often a power dynamic in gaslighting where the target is vulnerable because they are fearful of losses associated with challenging the manipulator.

The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.

Gerund of gaslight

A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface

Present participle of gaslight

A plan for an anticipated course of action

A prediction or estimate of something in the future, based on present data or trends.

The process of projecting an image onto a screen or other surface for viewing.

An image so projected.

(Mathematics) The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.

A system of intersecting lines, such as the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface.

(Psychology) The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others, thought in psychoanalytic theory to be an unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.

Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

(archaic) The throwing of materials into a crucible, hence the transmutation of metals.

(archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.

The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.

(photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

(cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.

(geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.

(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.

(mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.

(category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

(grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.

The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.

The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.

A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

The projection of an image from a film onto a screen

A planned undertaking

Any structure that branches out from a central support

Any solid convex shape that juts out from something

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality;

The representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

The act of projecting out from something

The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting