Unless we are possessed of an unusual degree of self-awareness we shall never see through our projections but must always succumb to them, because the mind in its natural state presupposes the existence of such projections. It is the natural and given thing for unconscious contents to be projected. In a comparatively primitive person this creates that characteristic relationship to the object that Levy-Bruhl has fittingly called "mystic identity", or "participation mistique". Thus every normal person of our time who is not reflective beyond the average, is bound to his environment by a whole system of projections
(Jung, CW 8, par 507)