Jungian Psychology: Of Images

I have spent many a long hour reading and studying Jungian psychology. Jung is the student of Freud but focus' more on the anima, animus, ego and projecting images. What I want to talk about today is projecting images.

Often times in our lives we find ourselves looking up to people and building them up in our minds that they become more than they are. A chief example is of all those who voted for President Bush the first time around because they believed in their minds that he would be like his father and some great man that would lead us through the troubles of september 11th. They built up all these great expectations and looked on him with awe as a leader of men, until that is reality slapped them all in the face and they realized just who exactly he was.

This image that we project goes both ways. Just as we may see someone as this great person in our thoughts, we can also see someone as a terrible bane of our existence. For example: There was someone I thought so terribly of, I looked down on and blamed the roots of so many of my troubles on them. That person to me became the scapegoat and a witch. When ever I was stressed out or angry I found myself blaming them and how they victimized me. I however realized that when I actually spent time with this person that I thoroughly enjoyed myself and that they were not the person I had created them to be. This is something everybody does. I would like to recommend that everyone stop and think to themselves. What images have I unfairly created for people?