In “The Fly” old Mr. Woodifield is a projection of the boss’ unconscious, which contains the boss’ repressed memories of his son and his fear of abandonment. The unconscious is “the storehouse of those painful experiences and emotions, those wounds, fears, guilty desires, and unresolved conflicts we do not want to know about because we feel we will be overwhelmed by them (Tyson 12) while projection, is “ascribing our fear, problem, or guilty desire to someone else and then condemning him or her for it, in order to deny that we have it ourselves” (Tyson 15). Whether it is the fear of abandonment, the selective/repressed memories, or the projection of the boss’ future self, the author shows us that the boss struggles with depression when it come
