Transference

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of transferring.
  • noun. The fact of being transferred.
  • noun. The process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst during a course of treatment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of transferring; the act of conveying from one place, person, or thing to another; the passage or conveyance of anything from one place or person to another; transfer.
  • noun. In Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
  • noun. The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst
  • noun. transferring ownership
  • noun. the act of transfering something from one form to another
  • Word Usage
    "The term transference is derived from adult psychoanalytic therapy and refers to the views and relations the patient presents about significant early childhood objects, namely parents, sibs, and significant caretakers."
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