transference

noun

The act or process of transferring.

The fact of being transferred.

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 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.

In Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.