TRANSFERENCE

Transference

Transference is a phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. One definition of transference is "the inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person's childhood." Another definition is "the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object." Still another definition is "a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, especially of childhood, and the substitution of another person ... for the original object of the repressed impulses." Transference was first described ...

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transference

Noun

  1. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
  2. The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.


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