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Some years ago, I watched an episode of the show Just Shoot Me! where one of characters used the phrase "The Jackass Syndrome" to describe the situation were two people who are quite similar in some ways can really hate each other (it was followed by a short scene in which, after two people met for the first time, each of them walked away muttering "jackass" in reference to the other person).

Over the years I have noticed that sometimes people that are indeed similar in some aspects (that they may not be aware of) can not get along with one another. Is there another word for this situation?

There are phrases relevant to the phenomenon, but I'm not familiar with any single word.

We hate most in others what we fear most in ourselves.*

and

The pot calling the kettle black

are both applicable in situations wherein one person finds objectionable in another an attribute that s/he, too, possesses.

The psychological concept of projection is not unrelated. People who project generally deny feelings or desires within themselves and ascribe them to others.

*Rather than fear most, you might also hear see or even can't see.

"Quite to the contrary, "Jackass Syndrome," is the psychological term in Social Psychology that defines humanoid observations to be that of an armchair quarterback lack-of-forethought mentality in taking a seat on the bench, e.g., in the, "mall," to watch others go by and make errors in another Social Psychological term, "Fundamental Attribution Error," i.e., which is different as a minor facet of Fundamental Attribution Theory in and of itself. Fundamental Attribution Error is observing a person or thing, e.g., animal, adapting its conduct to the environment, yet attributing either personal feelings onto the individual thing, the object of consideration, and, as above, "projecting," a personal or individual character or schema of the objects intention singularly instead of taking proper consideration for the environment and the conditions of such examined conduct-behaviour. The error lies in not taking into consideration enough environmental factors and over-contributing assumptions as attributes of such individual. "Cognitive Dissonance," goes well with this erroneous process or lack of BONA FIDE method towards proper and correct analysis, of the effect, to such fictitious conclusions drawn by the mistaken lack-of-true perception, the misperception held by the observer, who misuses human capacity to an efficiency less than a, "Jackass," as trapped in, "Syndrome," behaviours. Enough mistakes could rightly lead to Agoraphobia that should keep that Jackass at home to examine themselves for their own mistakes to become introspective and realign those potential misconceptions in fine-tuning the egotistic sources of their own preoccupation culminating in misperception and common human error."